RT Article
T1 Racialized Social Group Position Among Correctional Officers and Prisoners in Solitary Confinement
JF The prison journal
VO 105
IS 6
SP 760
OP 783
A1 Smith, Earl 1946-
A1 Hattery, Angela 1966-
A2 Hattery, Angela 1966-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1940780616
AB This study analyses data derived from hundreds of hours of ethnographic observations and 100 interviews with both prisoners and staff working in solitary confinement in a state prison system. Specifically, Blumer's theoretical framework illuminates four group processes that function to facilitate racialized group solidarity that were evidenced in the data. We conclude with a discussion of the slippery slope from racial solidarity and group position to the total dehumanization that results in staff defying them their basic, constitutionally guaranteed human rights.
K1 racialized social group position
K1 corrections officers
K1 Prisons
K1 Solitary Confinement
DO 10.1177/00328855251388940