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  • Way Down in the Hole

  • Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
  • By: Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith
  • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
  • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

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Way Down in the Hole

By: Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
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Summary

Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies.

Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in economically depressed rural communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas, and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn't be surprising that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff coexist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce racial antagonism and resentment.

©2023 Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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