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...Tommaso Bardelli; Zach Gillespie; Thuy Linh N. Tu In the United States, going to jail or prison increasingly comes with a hefty price tag for incarcerated persons. As states continue to cut public spending, individuals are required to cover costs for basic necessities, such as food, health care...

... Science and the Global Dynamics of Knowledge . Cambridge, UK : Polity Press . Fanon Frantz . 1967 . Black Skin, White Masks . New York : Grove Press . Fleury-Steiner Benjamin Crowder Carla . 2008 . Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison . Ann Arbor : University...

...Jon Horne Carter This essay examines a period of crisis in the national penitentiary system in Honduras, during emergency campaigns designed to combat transnational gangs, called maras . Emergency laws led to the incarceration of mara members by the thousands, overcrowding prisons and overburdening...

...Leonidas K. Cheliotis Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison...

...Keramet Reiter On July 1, 2011, approximately four hundred prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison began a sustained hunger strike. Most of these prisoners had been in total solitary confinement, under conditions of extreme sensory deprivation, for five or more years; a few had been...

...Zach Gillespie; Mychal Pagan; Aiyuba Thomas; Derick McCarthy; Vincent Thompson In the course of a group discussion, five student members of New York University’s Prison Education Program (PEP) reflect on their transition from prison inmates and students to their training as peer researchers...

...Salah M. Hassan The last two decades have marked the publication of a number of prison memoirs and testimonials written by former leftist political prisoners in Sudan. Unlike reports issued by international human rights organizations, these publications foreground a much more personal...

...Clinton Rogers Woodruff Volume XXII JANUARY Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly On Prison Reform Clinton Rogers Woodruff Philadelphia. Prison reform, declares a writer in the Canadian Munici­ pal Journal, is a business proposition. Once the cities wake up to its vital place in civic life...

...William B. Hamilton The Great Prisoners: The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison . By Abramowitz Isidore . New York : E. P. Dutton & Company , 1946 . Pp. 879 . $4.95 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 154 The South Atlantic Quarterly though...

...Louis-Ferdinand Céline; Henri Godard; Alice Kaplan; Philippe Roussin Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Louis-Ferdinand Celine A First Sketch of Feerie pour une autre fois (from the Prison Notebooks) Introduced by Henri Godard The second half of Celine s oeuvre the novels written...

...Roy D. King; Bruna Valensia The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic...

...Lena Meari This article investigates Palestinian-Zionist colonial relations from the perspective of the interrogation encounter between Palestinian munadilin (strugglers) in prison and their interrogators from the Israeli security agency during the past forty years of Zionist settler colonization...

...Necmi Zeka 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Necmi Zeka A Prisoner of Language: The Strange Case of Modern Turkish Poetry Icame to Istanbul to look at the past, not at the future—since the latter doesn’t exist here...

...Chris Garces To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador’s prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding...

... gradually seep into domestic civilian life as the new norms. The gross abuses of presumed enemy combatants in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay come back to haunt us, as war crimes abroad impact behavior at home. The expansion and deformation of US prison culture—isolation, solitary confinement, and other...

...Avery F. Gordon This essay is an illustrated montage of some points of engagement with Philip Scheffner's 2007 film, The Halfmoon Files , about the Halfmoon prisoner of war camp in Wünsdorf, Germany. The camp was an important site for anthropometric research and propaganda during World War I...

...Colin Dayan This article seeks to make sense of the diverse and contradictory materials of law that intervene in everyday life through strategies of containment, exclusion, and extermination. The prison is now the central public institution in the United States. Though hidden from sight, it defines...

...Julien Allavena; Matteo Polleri The stakes of the current shared interest in the idea and the practice of political inquiry are highlighted by the co-research led by Romano Alquati and the Prisons Information Group in which Michel Foucault participated. Each of these experiences produces knowledge...

...Sarah Lamble This article considers the state’s punitive response to the civil unrest that swept across England in August 2011. Surveying measures taken by police, courts, and politicians—including lengthy prison sentences, violent police raids, increased surveillance, and proposals for new benefit...