Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement

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Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement

Title remainder

race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement

Statement of responsibility

Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith

Creator

• Hattery, Angela,

Contributor

• Smith, Earl, 1946-

Author

• Hattery, Angela,
• Smith, Earl, 1946-

Subject

• Prisonniers -- Conditions sociales
• Solitary confinement
• Solitary confinement
• Minorities -- Effect of imprisonment on
• Prisoners -- Social conditions
• Prisoners -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

"Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn't be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that inmates often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which inmates and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment"--

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• Critical issues in crime and society

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Series statement

Critical issues in crime and society