Appealing to justice : prisoner grievances, rights, and carceral logic / Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness.
2015
HV9475.C2 C295 2015 (Map It)
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Title
Appealing to justice : prisoner grievances, rights, and carceral logic / Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness.
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
HV9475.C2 C295 2015
ISBN
9780520284173 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0520284178 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780520284180 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0520284186 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780520959835 (e-book)
0520284178 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780520284180 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0520284186 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780520959835 (e-book)
Description
xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)885026969
Summary
"Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners' written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States. Drawing on sometimes startlingly candid interviews with prisoners and prison staff, as well as on official records, the authors walk us through the byzantine grievance process, which begins with prisoners filing claims and ends after four levels of review, with corrections officials usually denying requests for remedies. Appealing to Justice is both an unprecedented study of disputing in an extremely asymmetrical setting and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. Quoting extensively from their interviews with prisoners and officials, the authors give voice to those who are almost never heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms within the sociological literature--for example, about the reluctance of vulnerable and/or stigmatized populations to name injuries and file claims, and about the relentlessly adversarial subjectivities of prisoners and correctional officials--and they do so with striking poignancy. Ultimately, Appealing to Justice reveals a system fraught with impediments and dilemmas, which delivers neither justice, nor efficiency, nor constitutional conditions of confinement"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
List of Tables
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Introduction: Rights, Captivity, and Disputing behind Bars
1
2.
"Needles," "Haystacks," and "Dead Watchdogs": The Prison Litigation Reform Act and the Inmate Grievance System in California
24
3.
Naming, Blaming, and Claiming in an Uncommon Place of Law
49
4.
Prisoners' Counternarratives: "This Is a Prison and It's Not Disneyland"
80
5.
"Narcissists," "Liars," Process, and Paper: The Dilemmas and Solutions of Grievance Handlers
97
6.
Administrative Consistency, Downstream Consequences, and "Knuckleheads"
130
7.
Grievance Narratives as Frames of Meaning, Profiles of Power
150
8.
Conclusion
182
Appendix A
Procedures for Interviews with Prisoners
195
Appendix B
Procedures for Interviews with CDCR Personnel
198
Appendix C
Coding the Sample of Grievances
200
Cases
203
Notes
205
References
223
Index
237