“…Although this body of literature has been developing significantly in recent years, capturing and analysing how prisoners' relatives manage relationships in the shadow of imprisonment, there is an apparent scarcity of contributions that look to the same kind of negotiations inside prison walls. Sociological accounts of prison life have been developing in the last few decades (Crewe, 2009;Cunha, 2014), addressing issues such as the reproduction of social, economic, and material inequalities among prisoners (Marchetti, 2002), the dynamics of prison suicide (Liebling, 2007), the idiosyncrasies of women' imprisonment (Carlen and Worrall, 2004;Almeda, 2005;Rowe, 2011;Fili, 2013), and the social effects of concentrated incarceration of lower-class communities in prison life (Clear, 2007;Cunha, 2008). Although some of these studies directly or indirectly address issues related to the negotiation of familial relationships during imprisonment, its contributions remain widely dispersed.…”