{"id":2019,"date":"2018-05-08T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:08:36","slug":"prison-conditions-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2018\/05\/08\/prison-conditions-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Conditions Around the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2021\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrianakis\/5262555844\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/05\/5262555844_5c75b01a94_z-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/05\/5262555844_5c75b01a94_z-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/05\/5262555844_5c75b01a94_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/05\/5262555844_5c75b01a94_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by the euskadi 11, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For most of us, our only way to know what life in prison is like is through occasional movies and TV shows. But for inmates, the prison impacts all aspects of their lives. Recent stories have filled newsfeeds about a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/crime\/washington-state-penitentiary-hunger-strike-continues\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">food protest in a Washington state facility<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrotimes.com\/news-hits\/archives\/2018\/04\/18\/michigan-prison-violating-pregnant-muslims-religious-rights-lawyers-say\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">religious discrimination in Michigan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/04\/03\/599062943\/venezuela-blames-inmates-for-deadly-prison-fire\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a massive fire in a Venezuelan jail that claimed 68 lives.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These events put the often-dismal conditions, lack of programs, and corruption in carceral spaces on full display. Social science research on prisons can help us understand the conditions of prison life and how broader social context shapes prison structures. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Classical sociological perspectives view prisons as totalizing institutions that define both the day-to-day routines and the personal identities of those incarcerated. This leads to \u201cpains of imprisonment\u201d beyond loss of freedom. More recent scholarship demonstrates how structural inequality, and especially racial inequality in the United States, shaped the development of prisons. Racialization and racial segregation still shape practices within prisons today.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cla.umn.edu\/about\/directory\/profile\/brewe001\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rose M. Brewer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stkate.edu\/academics\/our-faculty\/nancy-heitzeg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy A. Heitzeg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2008.\u00a0 &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0002764207307745\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Behavioral Scientist<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">51<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(5): 625-644.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/erving-goffman-3026489\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erving Goffman<\/span><\/a>.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1961. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/61103\/asylums-by-erving-goffman\/9780385000161\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Penguin Random House. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Gresham-M-Sykes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gresham M. Sykes<\/span><\/a>.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2007. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8390.html\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Princeton University Press. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Prison overcrowding has been a major concern in the United States since the beginning of the prison boom in the 1970s. Research clearly shows that overcrowding has serious physical and mental health effects for the incarcerated, and deleterious impacts for safety in prisons. In Latin America, prisons are also overcrowded, and often include a disproportionately high number of prisoners who are awaiting trial, but have not been convicted. Since these prisons lack government oversight and often have insufficient financial resources, many prisons suffer from corruption, persistent abuse by prison officers, and a crumbling physical infrastructure. Religious entities, and sometimes even prisoners themselves, play crucial role in administering and organizing prisons, as well as providing resources and rehabilitation opportunities.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/faculty\/show-person.php?person_id=1423\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Massoglia<\/span><\/a>.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2008.\u00a0 &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/002214650804900105\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incarceration as Exposure: the Prison, Infectious Disease, and Other Stress-Related Illnesses<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Health and Social Behavior<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">49<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1): 56-71.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.ucsc.edu\/faculty\/singleton.php?&amp;singleton=true&amp;cruz_id=psylaw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Craig Haney<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2006. &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/law_journal_law_policy\/vol22\/iss1\/22\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wages of Prison Overcrowding: Harmful Psychological Consequences and Dysfunctional Correctional Reactions.<\/span><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington University Journal of Law &amp; Policy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a022: 265-293. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crcc.usc.edu\/people\/andrew-johnson\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Johnson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2017. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/if-i-give-my-soul-9780190238995?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oxford University Press. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfb-governance.de\/en\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Markus-Michael M\u00fcller<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2012. &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10282580.2011.590282\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rise of the Penal State in Latin America.<\/span><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contemporary Justice Review<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1): 57-76.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent events and protests shine a light on the importance of continued research on prison conditions across the globe. These studies both help us to understand how social contexts \u201con the inside\u201d and outside of prisons shape the lives of the incarcerated, and bring awareness to an issue that is often obfuscated from public life. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, our only way to know what life in prison is like is through occasional movies and TV shows. But for inmates, the prison impacts all aspects of their lives. 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