Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hattery, Angela, author.

Smith, Earl, 1946- author.

Series:

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Social conditions.

Prisoners.

Minorities--Effect of imprisonment on.

Minorities.

Solitary confinement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.

Introduction

Part I. The Hole

1. A Day in the Hole

2. Solitary Confinement in Context

3. Ideal Types

Part II. Scholar's Story

4. Recruiting People Incarcerated in Solitary Confinement

5. Fox News or CNN?

6. Racism in Solitary Confinement

7. The Cell Assignment: Race is the First Consideration

8. It's "Culture" not "Race"

Part III. CO Porter and Dr. Emma

9. Locating Prisons in Rural Settings

10. Prison Town-Larrabee

11. Dr. Emma and the Professional Staff

12. The Hotel

13. It's Either This or the Coal Mine

14. CO Porter: "Sometimes I Sleep in My Car"

Part IV. Fifty's Story

15. Dehumanization

16. Language

17. Studies with Monkeys

18. Hygiene Products

19. The Mirror

20. Food

21. Time

22. Mail

23. Choosing the Hole

24. Freelimo: The Silencing of the Political Prisoner

25. Extreme Violence

Part V. Marina's Story

26. Welcome to SCI-Women

27. The Women's Hole

28. Meeting the Mass Killer: Solitary Confinement Is Her "Home"

29. The BMU

30. Sally

31. CO Lisa

32. Wendi

33. "Do You Think I'll Die Here?"-Marina

Part VI. CO Travis

34. We Are the Essential Workers

35. Solitary Confinement Isn't a Daycare!

36. Correctional PTSD

37. "Therapy" with Dr. Emma

38. The Grift: Faking Mental Illness to Get a Candy Bar

39. The Flipped Script: TVs, Trays, and [Flush] Toilets

40. Not Always in Sync: The Job of the CO and the Work of the CO

41. Intimate Interracial Contact and Intimate Surveillance

Part VII. White Supremacy and the Lies White People Tell Themselves

42. The "Origin" Lie: The Negro Is the Problem

43. Emancipated Slaves and the White Sharecropper

44. Strangers in Their Own Land.

45. Dying by Whiteness

46. Bending the Rules: Creating Humanity in Inhumane Spaces

47. The Lies the COs Tell Themselves

48. "Anything But Race" Theories

49. January 6, 2021: The Big Lie

Epilogue

Abbreviations and Terms

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hattery, Angela J. Way down in the Hole

ISBN:

9781978823822

1978823827

9781978823808

1978823800

OCLC:

1341443987