A voice within: an autoethnographic account of moving from closed to open prison conditions by a life-sentenced prisoner

This article explores the lived experience of transitioning from closed toopen prison conditions by a mandatory life-sentenced prisoner. Using autoethnographicmethodology the lead author’s experience of this significant life-sentence event forms thebasis of a wider discussion. Research around this p...

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Main Author: Micklethwaite, Daniel (Author)
Contributors: Earle, Rod
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: The Howard journal of crime and justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-17
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Keywords:
Adaptation
Lived experience
Prison
autoethnography
open prison
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Summary:This article explores the lived experience of transitioning from closed toopen prison conditions by a mandatory life-sentenced prisoner. Using autoethnographicmethodology the lead author’s experience of this significant life-sentence event forms thebasis of a wider discussion. Research around this process is lacking. This article examinesthe phenomena around prisoner identity, prison culture and prisoner adaptation; it ex-plores what impact of years spent in the closed prison estate can have on how open prisonconditions are experienced. The authors identify important social and ontological obsta-cles to successful transition to open conditions and reflect on how it exposes the enduringharms resultant from serving a life sentence.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 16-17
Auch erschienen unter: https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12430
ISSN:2059-1101
DOI:10.1111/hojo.12430