The book examines the practice of imprisonment in Trinidad and
Tobago. It demonstrates that the rate fluctuates with employment
except for two periods when this is not so. These anomalies are
explained by the political salience of ethnicity. Similarly it
shows the limitations in that the relevant mediation between labour
market and imprisonment is not reform groups but ethnic politics.
However, the lack of reform groups may explain the non
sustainability of reform movements linked to ethnic struggles.
Official reports are analysed to identify penal discourse. Two
official discourses were identified one in 1935 and one in 1975
when a welfare discourse came briefly to the fore. Prisoners relate
their experiences and the connection between the conditions and
their survival strategies after prison. The concluding analysis
tests the model of imprisonment that is internationally renowned
and is the only one of its kind in the context of the country. It
will be especially useful for academia, historians, sociologists
and criminologists, penal policy making bodies, practitioners and
anyone who may consider crime and imprisonment, singularly or
comparatively.
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