Human rights in prisons : comparing institutional encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines / Andrew M. Jefferson and Liv S. Gaborit ; DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2015
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Human rights in prisons : comparing institutional encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines / Andrew M. Jefferson and Liv S. Gaborit ; DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Call Number
K3240 .J44 2015
ISBN
9781137433763 (hardback)
1137433760 (hardback)
9781137433770 (PDF ebook)
1137433760 (hardback)
9781137433770 (PDF ebook)
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xi, 217 pages ; 23 cm.
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(OCoLC)895727848
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
1.
Introducing Human Rights in Prisons
1
Key analytical concepts
2
prison as fundamentally relational
2
encounter
3
Institutional agency
4
Presenting the NGOs
4
Identifying partners
4
Balay Rehabilitation Centre
6
Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims
8
Prison Watch -- Sierra Leone
9
countries and their prisons
11
Philippines
14
SICA
14
NBP
15
Kosovo
17
Dubrava Correctional Centre
18
Lipian Correctional Centre (female and juvenile units)
19
Sierra Leone
20
Freetown Central Prison
20
Kenema State Prison
22
Structure of the book
22
2.
Encountering Ourselves: A Critically Reflexive Practice Research Project
26
Introduction
26
Design of the study
28
Critical psychological practice research
30
Introducing the co-researchers
32
challenges of a participatory and democratic methodology
34
Combining practice research with ethnography
37
Co-researcher challenges: the example of interviews with prison staff
38
Towards shared data analysis
41
Overview of the material
44
Conclusion
45
3.
First Encounters: Accessing Prisons
47
Accessing prisons
47
Grounds for access
48
Philippines
48
Sierra Leone
50
Kosovo
52
Access in practice
55
Philippines
55
New Bilibid Prison (NBP)
56
Special Intensive Care Area (SICA)
58
Sierra Leone
58
Kosovo
61
Experiencing access: the prison making its mark
62
Philippines
63
Sierra Leone
66
Kosovo
67
Conclusion
69
4.
Close Encounters with Prison Staff
71
Conceptualising prison staff
71
Being a prison officer
75
Adapting to prison
75
Kosovo: stress and frustration
75
Sierra Leone: resignation and demoralisation
77
Philippines: getting the job done
78
Self-perceptions among officers
79
Kosovo: pride and ambivalence
79
Sierra Leone: pride with disenchantment
82
Philippines: pride in skills
85
exercise of authority
88
Kosovo: authority undermined
88
Sierra Leone: authority at risk
90
Philippines: authority and compassion
93
Summing up
94
Prison staff's perspectives on external agencies
95
Kosovo: sceptical tolerance
95
Philippines: welcoming partnership
98
Sierra Leone: utilitarian tolerance
99
Conclusion
100
5.
Close Encounters with Prisoners
101
Conceptualising prisoners
101
How NGOs conceptualise prisoners
103
Prisoners' spaces
105
Sierra Leone: material scarcity
105
Kosovo: harsh climates
106
Philippines: self-governed spaces
107
Adjusting to prison life
109
Sierra Leone: growing old in the yard
109
Kosovo: it was hard in the beginning
111
Philippines: adjusting through religion or ideology
113
Relations on the inside: Experiences of care and inter-dependency
117
Philippines: surviving through strong group relations
117
Kosovo: every man for himself
119
Sierra Leone: care as tool for survival
120
Relations with the outside
121
Kosovo: influence and privilege through connections
121
Sierra Leone: distance separates
122
Philippines: my heart is sick because I miss my family
124
Experiences of uncertainty and judicial limbo
126
Sierra Leone: justice delayed is justice denied
126
Philippines: it is easy to get into prison but hard to get out
127
Kosovo: no release without connections
129
Conclusion
130
6.
Close Encounters between Prisoners and Prison Staff
131
Introduction
131
Conceptualising shared worlds
133
Prison proximity
136
Shared embodied spaces
136
Sierra Leone
136
Philippines
137
Kosovo
137
Shared relational spaces
139
Shared experiential worlds
149
distribution and arrangement of power and authority
153
Conclusion: recognition as drive and desire
158
7.
Critical Encounters
159
Introduction
159
Thinking through institutional agency
160
Thinking through encounters
167
Comparing styles of encounter
171
KRCT
171
Prison Watch
172
Balay
173
Instantiating the social
175
Conclusion: entangled institutional complexes
176
8.
What Encounters Count? What Matters?
178
Introduction
178
Lessons learned
179
Prisons and NGOs
180
Adjustment to prison life
181
prison as an institution of rehabilitation, reform, and resocialisation
182
Navigation and NGO self-presentation
186
Propositions for the future: from global norms to change in practice
190
Conclusion: final encounters
196
Notes
198
References
205
Index
213