CRI491H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fatalism, Supermax Prison, Solitary Confinement
Document Summary
Sparks & bottoms prisons are inherently non legitimate but things like procedural fairness may increase authorities" legitimacy. How do you govern an anti-natural space. Working from sykes" ideas myth of total power in prisons. Lack of social cohesion required for riot organizing. Minor resistances, friction resist power w/ minor resistances. Power & order are complicated to construe in prison. Main groups in prison exercise power in diff (opposing) ways. Guards exercise power to maintain order in prison. Prisoners receive power to fight pains of imprisonment. Order much more complicated that pragmatic tradeoff. Before sparks & bottom about having strong authority, good amount of services. Sykes not good enough to mobilize prisoners to compliance. Rewards not so good, punishments not so bad. But if you check what happens in prison works in some settings. Are motivated by prospect of freedom if you behave in certain ways, achieve certain goals, closer to freedom . Good image as prisoner, judge will consider this.
