RT Article
T1 Managing drugs in the prisoner society: heroin and social order in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons
JF Punishment & society
VO 24
IS 1
SP 26
OP 45
A1 Slade, Gavin 1980-
A2 Azbel, Lyuba
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1783529652
AB Through the case study of Kyrgyzstan this paper argues that a rapidly increasing availability of drugs in prison is not necessarily deleterious to solidarity and inmate codes. Instead, the fragmentary effect of drugs depends on the forms of prisoner control over drug sale and use. In Kyrgyzstan, prisoners co-opted heroin and reorganized its distribution and consumption through non-market mechanisms. State provision of opioid maintenance therapy incentivized powerful prisoners to move to distributing heroin through a mutual aid fund and according to need. Collectivist prison accommodation, high levels of prisoner mobility and monitoring within and across prisons enabled prisoners to enforce informal bans on drug dealing and on gang formation outside of traditional hierarchies. We argue that in these conditions prisoners organized as consumption-oriented budgetary units rather than profit-driven gangs.
K1 Gefangener
K1 Gefängnis
K1 Droge
K1 Heroin
K1 Bande
K1 Gruppenkohäsion
K1 Social Cohesion
K1 Prisoner
K1 post-Soviet
K1 Governance
K1 Gangs
K1 Drugs
K1 Kirgisien
DO 10.1177/1462474520956280