Prison Life | ScienceGate

The most important part in a Book of Criminal Law (Penal Code) is a prison, because the prison contains rules about the size and implementation of the criminal. The position of life imprisonment in the national criminal justice system is still considered relevant as a means of crime prevention, it can be seen from the number of offenses punishable with life imprisonment. However, life imprisonment is considered contrary to the penal system. This study aims to investigate the implementation of life imprisonment, weaknesses, and the solution in the future. The approach used in the study is a non-doctrinal legal research with socio-legal research types (Juridical Sociological).The results of research studies show that life imprisonment is contrary to prison system, and life imprisonment become an obstacle to fostering convicts back into society. Bill Criminal Code of September 2019 can be used as a solution to life imprisonment change in the future. Presented advice, in order to be disseminated to the application of the criminal purpose of the Criminal Code of Prison adopted in the future, so that the public and experts no longer make the criminal as a form of retaliation.Keywords: Reconstruction; Crime; Prison; Life Imprisonment; System; Corrections.

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Brutally Revealing: Voices Rising Out of San Quentin State Prison

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.88 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 88

Author(s):

Diane Ketelle

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Writing Workshop ◽

Personal Narratives ◽

State Prison ◽

Prison Life

This manuscript recounts the writing of inmates in a writing workshop project taught by the author at San Quentin State Prison. Through the process of writing personal narratives the inmates came to render new meaning from their lived experience. The process of writing bypassed rigid defenses developed in prison, and inmates were able to write and share without being left vulnerable. Writing, in this way, helped inmates who participated to escape the monotony and boredom of prison life and provided opportunity for reflection and personal growth.

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The Puzzle of Prison Order

10.1093/oso/9780190672492.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Skarbek

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Social Order ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

Prisoner Of War ◽

County Jail ◽

Prison Life ◽

Women's Prisons ◽

The Everyday ◽

Violent Men ◽

Prison Systems

The Puzzle of Prison Order presents a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. While many people think prisons are all the same—rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners’ needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? This book shows that how prisons are governed—sometimes by the state and sometimes by the prisoners—is tremendously important. It investigates life in a wide array of facilities—prisons in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, England and Wales, a prisoner of war camp, women’s prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail—to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on theories from political economy and a vast empirical literature on prison systems, the book offers a framework for understanding how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780198749240.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Anastasia Chamberlen

Keyword(s):

Prison Life

The conclusion of the book draws together a summary of the study’s arguments and findings, and reaffirms its invitation for a more affective, bodily aware, and theoretically richer sociology of prison life.

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Toward a Critical Race Theory of Prison Order in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Afterlives: When Disaster Collides with Institutional Death by Design

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/07311214211005485 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 073112142110054

Author(s):

Brittany Friedman

Keyword(s):

Critical Race Theory ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Human Beings ◽

Critical Race ◽

Race Theory ◽

Prison Life ◽

Second Nature ◽

Penal Institutions ◽

Sociology Of Disaster ◽

Implementing Strategies

In this article, I bridge critical sociological perspectives on penal institutions with insights from the sociology of disaster to advance a critical race theory of prison order in the wake of COVID-19 and its afterlives. Penal institutions officially categorize people as detainees, inmates, or prisoners in order to deliberately relegate human beings to a degraded social status, ultimately in service of an intentionally racist system. I theorize why prisons are natural epicenters for COVID-19, identifying the following institutional parameters as social factors: (1) death is by institutional design, where prison order is arranged so that people categorized as prisoners die socially, psychically, and physically; (2) promoting institutional survival rather than human survival is second nature during a disaster because the preexisting social organization of prison life serves this purpose; and (3) when a disaster strikes causing severe loss to people and resources, uncertainty is managed by implementing strategies that magnify the death(s) of incarcerated people in exchange for the life of the institution.

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Gramsci, Sraffa e la «famigerata lettera» di Grieco

PASSATO E PRESENTE ◽

10.3280/pass2009-077005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 79-91

Author(s):

Giancarlo De Vivo

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Prison Life

- Gramsci, Sraffa and Grieco's «notorious» Letter discusses an important episode in the prison life of Gramsci: that of a letter sent him by his comrade Grieco in 1928, a letter Gramsci suspected to have been sent with the aim of damaging his position in the impending trial before the Fascist "Tribunale Speciale". The thesis put forward by Luciano Canfora, that the letter had been tampered with by the police, with the addition of the compromising passages, is critically discussed. Canfora also asserts that Sraffa would have furnished widely different interpretations of this episode at different times, for "party reasons". This is shown to be contradicted by the available evidence.Key words: Communism, Fascism, Gramsci.Parole chiave: Comunismo, Fascismo, Gramsci

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Prisons and Prison life in Princely State: A Historical Study of Cooch Behar

Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.52711/2321-5828.2021.00025 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153-156

Author(s):

Ram Krishna Biswas

Keyword(s):

Colonial Period ◽

Historical Study ◽

Colonial Power ◽

Police Custody ◽

Prison Life ◽

Princely State

The present paper deals with the issue of prisons and their life in the Princely State of Cooch Behar. Cooch Behar was princely state during colonial period in India. With the advent of colonial power in India; the princely state had indirect relations with British power. Due to the contact with colonial power, the indigenous native rule in India became modified and codification of law and orders, regulations were introduced in the line of British pattern. The primitive systems of jails and prisons confinement were revised accordance with the new light of reformation, and in India especially in the princely rule modified. However, in this content the main aim is to find out the condition of the prisoners in the jails and police custody under the rule of Princely State.

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Space and ethnic identification in a Danish prison

Punishment & Society ◽

10.1177/1462474517722541 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 580-598 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mie B Haller ◽

Torsten Kolind

Keyword(s):

Drug Treatment ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Ethnic Differences ◽

Actual Practice ◽

Ethnic Identification ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Institutional Level ◽

Prison Life ◽

High Security ◽

Spatial Policy

Ethnicity has come to play an increasing role in contemporary Danish prison life. This development not only reflects the growing number of prisoners in Danish prisons with ethnic minority backgrounds. It also reflects changes in prison spatial policy and institutional classifications. Based on seven months of fieldwork in a Danish high security prison, we investigate how such changes at the institutional level and at the level of policy have affected prisoner’s everyday ethnic identifications. We focus especially on the way prisoners reinforce and essentialize ethnic differences by reference to institutional spatial divisions; particularly the division between regular wings and drug treatment wings. We find that ethnic Danish prisoners spending time in a treatment wing are often viewed as ‘soft’ and ‘weak’ by prisoners with ethnic minority backgrounds in regular wings, whereas these prisoners in regular wings are in turn perceived as troublemakers and chaotic by the ethnic Danish prisoners in drug treatment. We also show how ethnic categories are at times blurred in actual practice. We conclude by discussing the implication for policy and practice; especially, we debate whether new spatial prison policies may unintentionally partake in accentuating ethnic stereotypical thinking.

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The Morbid Psychology of Criminals

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.19.86.222 ◽

1873 ◽

Vol 19 (86) ◽

pp. 222-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Nicolson

Keyword(s):

Prison Life ◽

Inner World ◽

The Subject ◽

Intellectual Status ◽

Involuntary Servitude

The inner world of prison life is one of the best fields for the study of psychological questions, speculative as well as practical If the circumstances are somewhat exceptional, they have the special advantage of being uniform in their application; and this uniformity represents a standard to which individual minds, or particular groups of mind, bear a relation, and at which they may be tested. Imprisonment is the very antithesis of social usage, an involuntary servitude taking the place of the liberty of the subject, and it is surely a matter of no little interest to watch how social beings, varying in moral and intellectual status, bear themselves under confinement and a complete change in their circumstances and surroundings.

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