{"id":43700,"date":"2012-02-23T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43700"},"modified":"2015-09-19T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T04:09:16","slug":"who-buries-prisoners-social-class-and-ones-final-resting-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/23\/who-buries-prisoners-social-class-and-ones-final-resting-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisons, Social Class, and One&#8217;s Final Resting Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> recently ran an \u00a0interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/05\/us\/texas-prisoner-burials-are-a-gentle-touch-in-a-punitive-system.html?pagewanted=2&amp;ref=us\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> on prison cemeteries in Texas. \u00a0For about $2,000, the state buries about 100 inmates a year. They die of lethal injection, old age, or illness, but they&#8217;re all dressed in dark pants, a white shirt, and tie, and are buried with a prayer from the prison chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>When inmates die in custody, their bodies are sometimes unclaimed. \u00a0This may be because they have no family at all, or their family members don&#8217;t wish to claim the body. \u00a0 Other times the inmate is cared for by family members who simply can&#8217;t afford to bury the person themselves. \u00a0So,\u00a0occasionally\u00a0the family members will decline to claim the body, but show up on the day of the burial to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times recently ran an \u00a0interesting story on prison cemeteries in Texas. \u00a0For about $2,000, the state buries about 100 inmates a year. They die of lethal injection, old age, or illness, but they&#8217;re all dressed in dark pants, a white shirt, and tie, and are buried with a prayer from the prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2056,233,304],"class_list":["post-43700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-death","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43700"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67903,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700\/revisions\/67903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}