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The Cage of Days - Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Hardcover)
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The Cage of Days - Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Hardcover)
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Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal
justice system: we punish people by making them "serve" time. The
Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a
formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G.
Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing
from Carceral's field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates,
and convict memoirs, this book reveals what time does to prisoners
and what prisoners do to time. Carceral and Flaherty consider the
connection between the subjective dimensions of time and the
existential circumstances of imprisonment. Convicts find that their
experience of time has become deeply distorted by the rhythm and
routines of prison and by how authorities ensure that an inmate's
time is under their control. They become obsessed with the passage
of time and preoccupied with regaining temporal autonomy, creating
elaborate strategies for modifying their perception of time. To
escape the feeling that their lives lack forward momentum,
prisoners devise distinctive ways to mark the passage of time, but
these tactics can backfire by intensifying their awareness of
temporality. Providing rich and nuanced analysis grounded in the
distinctive voices of diverse prisoners, The Cage of Days examines
how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal
regime.
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