Abstract
AbstractThis chapter deals with prisoners’ experience of and in the prison cell. It argues that the cell is the crucial context for the foundation and maintenance of prisoners’ sense of self and personal integrity. The chapter starts with a description of the legal and institutional norms regarding the design, materiality and furnishing of the cell. It then explores the various meanings prisoners attribute to their cells, their individual experiences of being inside and their ways of arranging their cells and doing time in this place where they spend most of their time alone, depending on their mode of being with time—that is, their personal attitude towards their indeterminate confinement.
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Springer International Publishing
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