RT Article
T1 Prison psychosis
JF Social justice
VO 27
IS 3
SP 50
OP 55
A1 Taylor, M. Grayson L.
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159492
AB Part of a special issue on critical resistance to the prison-industrial complex. The writer discusses the mental condition known as prison psychosis—a state of mental confusion, permanent or transitory, resulting from incarceration or the threat of imprisonment—among black prisoners. He notes that psychological torture exacerbates prison psychosis and results in prisoners being permanently damaged and eventually becoming immune to punishment and pain. He also contends that having a mostly white prison staff guard and a mostly black prison population sets up a situation in which prison staff use barbaric torture tactics to seek revenge for real or imagined offenses or to inflict pain for their personal pleasure.
K1 Torture
K1 Psychoses
K1 solitary confinement
K1 Racism
K1 Diseases
K1 Prisoners
K1 Prison conditions
K1 Mental Illness
K1 Black prisoners
K1 Prisons -- United States
K1 Prisons