2002
DOI: 10.1177/1466138102003004017
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`Papa's House'

Abstract: Concerned about their partners' potential desensitization to carceral existence and their ensuing loss of ability to function outside of the penitentiary walls, women whose husbands, fiancés, or boyfriends are incarcerated attempt to involve their loved one in personal and family life by relocating various everyday activities into the prison visiting room. As kinship gatherings, family celebrations, and romance are conducted behind bars, the prison becomes `Papa's house', an alternative site for the performanc… Show more

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“…Although the Assisted Prison Visits Scheme funds travel costs, the scheme does not cover refreshments en route and at the prison. In addition, family members often provide clothes, books, educational materials, and so on for their imprisoned family member, often depriving themselves of necessities in order to make their family member's prison sentence more tolerable, or occasionally as a consequence of coercion by the prisoner (Comfort 2002; Christian 2005; Fishman 1990; Girshick 1996; Codd 2000). Families may experience social stigma and hostility, especially at the hands of the popular news media; however, although it is fair to say that although some family members become the target for outpourings of popular anger and experience verbal and sometimes physical harassment and aggression, for a far greater number of family members the fear of societal negative reaction is greater than the reality (Davies 1980; Fishman 1988).…”
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“…Although the Assisted Prison Visits Scheme funds travel costs, the scheme does not cover refreshments en route and at the prison. In addition, family members often provide clothes, books, educational materials, and so on for their imprisoned family member, often depriving themselves of necessities in order to make their family member's prison sentence more tolerable, or occasionally as a consequence of coercion by the prisoner (Comfort 2002; Christian 2005; Fishman 1990; Girshick 1996; Codd 2000). Families may experience social stigma and hostility, especially at the hands of the popular news media; however, although it is fair to say that although some family members become the target for outpourings of popular anger and experience verbal and sometimes physical harassment and aggression, for a far greater number of family members the fear of societal negative reaction is greater than the reality (Davies 1980; Fishman 1988).…”
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“…Prison visits have been found to support the emotional health of prisoners and may decrease chances of recidivism (Cochran, et al, 2020). When someone is sentenced to prison, their close ties are sentenced also to the deprivation from their loved one and to years of navigating complex rules of contact, part of the "collateral consequences" of incarceration (Hagan and Dinovitzer, 1999;Comfort, 2002). Extending to prisoners and their families the same electronic tools -however flawed -of prosocial connection and intimacy now essential in the free world can ease some emotional burdens, and even may offer an evidence-based strategy to reduce recidivism and ease penal overcrowding in advance of the next crisis.…”
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“…As regras impostas às mulheres nas dinâmicas de visitas de privados de liberdade seriam exemplos claros do já mencionado processo de "prisionização secundária" descrito por Comfort (2002Comfort ( , 2003Comfort ( , 2007. De fato, esse conceito seria uma variação do proposto por Donald Clemmer (1950), que referencia as mudanças comportamentais e culturais derivadas do cumprimento da privação de liberdade.…”
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“…A comida se torna, pois, um elo condutor na relação entre a mulher e o preso, já que funciona como uma espécie de ponte entre o mundo material e o sentimental familiar (DUARTE, 2013). Nessa mesma linha, como já mencionado, Comfort (2002) afirma que o esforço feminino acaba por tornar a prisão um "satélite doméstico": "[…] as mulheres usam a comida como uma ferramenta para 'domesticar' o ambiente carcerário" (COMFORT, 2002, p. 480).…”
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