Surviving Incarceration

Rose Ricciardelli is an assistant professor at Memorial University. She has published in academic journals such as Sex Roles, Criminal Justice Review, Qualitative Sociological Review, Journal of Crime and Justice, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Her research explores prisoner culture, wrongful conviction, desistance, and the coping strategies, gender identity, and risk perception of prisoners and correctional officers.

"We are accustomed to the perceived risks associated with prisoners being released but lack sufficient information on the risks of imprisonment and release as experienced by offenders. In a careful and well-crafted account Rose Ricciardelli has brought to the forefront the lived experiences of prisoners and in doing so challenges the data-narratives created by the criminal justice system. In centring on the ways prisoners negotiate their prison time and respond to the pressures of re-entry Dr. Ricciardelli provides us with an informative and insightful perspective on prison life in Canada." -- Donald G. Evans, executive editor, 'Journal of Community Corrections'; past president of the American Probation and Parole Association and of the International Community Corrections Association

• Surviving Incarceration: Inside Canadian Prisons by Rose RicciardelliIntroductionNarrative: Just a Kid: Forever HurtingIntroduction to Federal Corrections in CanadaThe Focus: Setting the StageChanging Legislation in CorrectionsWhat about Safety?Chapter OneNarrative: A Life Without Freedom: The Multi-Prison, Multi-Sentence ExperienceCorrectional Services of CanadaProvincial versus Federal CorrectionsMethods: The MenUnderstanding the Classification System: Prisoner ClassificationDoes Prisoner Classification Work?Understanding the Classification System: Institutional ClassificationHow I Found the Guys?The DetailsChapter TwoNarrative: Addiction, Incest: Thirty-Two Years in Prison, Thirty-Six Years of AddictionHierarchy: Crime, Sexuality, Masculinity, and SafetyFactor 1. Being Solid: Criminal ConvictionsFactor 2. Being Solid: MasculinitiesThe OppressorPresenting ToughActing AggressiveBreadwinningFactor 3. Being Solid: Prison Sex or SexualityThe Largely Homophobic EnvironmentConsistently Subordinated Homosexuality?Being Solid: HeterosexualityWhy Does the Hierarchy Exist?Chapter ThreeNarrative: A Violent Place Where Everybody Has a StoryViolence and Theory: The Prison AtmosphereTheoretical UnderstandingsThe Current Canada Prison Experience: Understanding and Acknowledging the ViolenceThe AtmosphereMaximum-Security Prisons: Controls Within the InstitutionHigh-Medium-Security Prison: Controls Within the InstitutionLow-Medium- and Minimum-Security Prisons: Controls Within the InstitutionCoercive Controls: Impacting Penal ViolenceRemunerative Controls: Impacting Penal ViolenceThe Need: BalanceChapter FourNarrative: A Brother, a Son, a Lover, a Dad, a Man, a Prisoner with HeartHard MemoriesNowadaysThe Inmate CodeThe History of the CodeWhy a Code?What Is the Code?Never Rat on a Con and Don't Get Friendly with the StaffBe Dependable (Not Loyal)Follow Daily Behaviour Rules or Else!I Won't See You, Don't See Me, and Shut-up Already!Be Fearless or at Least Act ToughIn the EndChapter FiveNarrative: A Sex Offender's StoryThe Other CrimesPublic PerceptionsStigma Theory and FramingThe Sex Offender StigmaStigma in Prison: Stigmatized by Other PrisonersThe Stigma of Protective CustodyPainful Consequences: Stigmatized by Other PrisonersRevelations, Intolerance, and Passing: The Quest to be SolidDistancing Sex OffendersPrisoners Exposing PrisonersProfessionals and Paraprofessionals in CorrectionsThe Role of the MediaResources: Lacking SupportsThe Systemic Sex Offender StigmaFinal ThoughtsChapter SixNarrative: Change from Within (It Changed Me)The Personal Side: Coping, Changing, For Better or WorseCoping with Incarceration: Trust in SelfCoping with Incarceration: When More is NeededChangePrison: Fostering NegativityChange from Within and Holding on to YourselfResources and ProgrammingChapter SevenNarrative: Gang Affiliation, Clearly Not the Way of the FutureFinal WordsWhat Can This Study Not Speak To?What We Do Know?Safe Streets and Prisons: Corrections at WorkIndustry Growth: For Better or WorseNotesReferencesIndex