Leaving behind the ‘total institution’? Teeth, transcarceral spaces and (re)inscription of the formerly incarcerated body

Expanding carceral geographies: challenging mass incarceration and creating a "community orientation" towards juvenile delinquency

“…Ultimately, carceral geographies must not only understand how prison spaces came to be the institutional exemplar of late 20th century US society, or how they are ultimately porous institutions (Garland, 2001); rather, a fuller understanding of the power of the carceral society must attend to incarceration as, ultimately, a spatial practice defined not just by its most extreme example. Already, even in its nascent stage, carceral geographers are starting to question the notion of the "total institution" (Moran, 2013). As the field of carceral geography moves forward, it must not only contend with the notion of incarceration, as defined in its totality by the prison; it must also consider how the multiplicity of carceral spaces ultimately work together to create the carceral society that is so common to modern day descriptions.…”

“…Carceral power is often used interchangeably with incarceration complexes, such as prison, immigrant detention, and other forms of confinement (e.g., Dirsuweit, 1999;Wacquant, 2000). Carceral geographies are likewise considered as landscapes of total exclusion, separation, and isolation from the outside world (Moran, 2011(Moran, , 2013). Yet, carceral geographers have questioned this totalizing narrative and labeled it as incomplete.…”

“…Carceral spaces are not limited to the prison and immigrant detention, though, and, as geographers have noted, the practice of incarceration does not end at the boundaries of the prison (Gilmore, 2007;Moran, 2013;Turner, 2013). In addition, the threat of imprisonment, deportation, and other coercive state practices are institutionalized throughout a range of state-centered social-control practices, which take place both in the prison but also through seemingly unrelated practices like state-funded housing (Coutin, 2010;Wacquant, 2008).…”

The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody

“…The blurring of inside/outside of carceral spaces has been written about in relation to prisons, with the physical embodied inscriptions of prison life often 'becoming corporeal markers of imprisonment (see Moran (2014) for a discussion on the embodied impacts of tattoos and other forms of inscription). Although the physical and mental scars associated with a spell in prison may be deeper, given the much briefer spells that detainees spend in police custody, arguably police custody also marks the start of such a journey.…”

“…Stigma is generally understood to convey a sense of disgrace, based on an attribute which may be discrediting. It is attributed to bodily subjectivities, where people inscribe a moral and culturally negative stereotype on someone, based on societal norms (Moran, 2014 Police caution, reprimand, whatever. So yeah I was more relieved at the point of which they said its going to be a caution because it could have been £80 fixed penalty and that was point of me nicking the fucking Sat Nav' (Detainee_Nt5)…”