Prerelease Stress in Prison Inmates

Mabli, Jerome; Glick, Steven M.; Hilborn, Marilyn; Kastler, Jerry; Pillow, David R.; Karlson, Kevin; Barber, Scott

doi:10.1300/j264v09n03_05

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“…Too much is made possible. Analogous pains can be identified in prisoner 'release anxiety' (Crawley and Sparks, 2006;Mabli et al, 1985;Uggen et al, 2004;Visher and Travis, 2003). Inmates on Prison Island experience a foretaste of release proper, and therefore live in a kind of permanently suspended release anxiety.…”

Section: Anxiety and Boundlessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway’s Prison Island

Shammas

2014

Punishment & Society

130

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Where is the pain in exceptional prisons? A new generation of prisons produces unusual 'pains of imprisonment' which scholars of punishment are only beginning to catalog. This article brings the reader inside the social milieu of Norway's 'Prison Island', a large, minimum security ('open') prison. Here inmates live in self-organized cottages and enjoy relatively unrestricted freedom of movement. But even under exceptional conditions of Scandinavian incarceration, new vectors and modes of punishment arise that produce 'pains of freedom', a notion drawing on Crewe's historicizing examination of Sykes' concept. Serving as an addition to conventional sociological conceptualizations of prison pains, the 'pains of freedom' can be classified into five sub-categories: (1) confusion; (2) anxiety and boundlessness; (3) ambiguity; (4) relative deprivation; and (5) individual responsibility. Based on three months of ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with 15 inmates, it is shown that freedom is occasionally experienced as ambiguous, bittersweet or tainted. These new pains may be indicative of what is in stock for clients of future penal regimes in other societies.

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Section: Anxiety and Boundlessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%