The Rise of Prison Literature

Freeman, Thomas S.

doi:10.1525/hlq.2009.72.2.133

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“…The world over, corrections exist to enforce and ensure compliance to societal stipulated rules and regulations, maintain the safety of the general population, provide punishment to offenders in consonance with their offences as provided by the law and, most importantly, rehabilitate prisoners. While the aim of prison systems around the world is relatively similar, the structures and organization of the systems around the world differ in many ways (Freeman, 2019).…”

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Corruption and Healthcare Delivery: Towards a Progressive Intervention in Nigerian Correctional Centres

Ahmad

Koya

2020

NJSA

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Corruption is a complex and multifaceted challenge of global concern. The correctional setting in Nigeria is not exempted from the more general context of this issue. Nigeria has a poorly structured service for correctional healthcare system driven by a collection of socioeconomic and legal factors especially corruption. One of the pressing challenges in Nigerian public health is to provide services to those who need them the most, particularly those behind bars and therefore hard to reach. Yet, it remains obvious that, a significant majority of those with health problems are incarcerated in the correctional centers of Nigeria. This study which is anchored on Economic Theory of Corruption examined corrupt practices associated with healthcare delivery in Kano Central and Goron Dutse Correctional Centers. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative methods in eliciting data from convicted and awaiting trial inmates and healthcare providers. Thus, a total of 350 inmates were sampled across convicts and awaiting trial inmates through the simple random sampling technique using Wiseman’s 1999 table of sample size. In addition, two respondents (healthcare officials) were purposively sampled for in-depth interview. The findings revealed some level of negation especially as it concerns referrals and the inmates’ treatment charges outside the correctional setting. The study recommends the need for complete overhaul of the correctional healthcare delivery system in line with recommended global best practices.

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Corruption and Healthcare Delivery: Towards a Progressive Intervention in Nigerian Correctional Centres

Ahmad

Koya

2020

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“…Pour ceux-ci, le récit d'enfermement a la prétention de sauver sa personne (l'auteur), voire l'humanité. Chez Freeman (2009), l'incarcération fournit un gain de crédibilité aux auteurs des XVI e et XVII e siècles. Ainsi, certains revendiquent une autorité spirituelle en raison de la virtuosité attribuée à leur expérience.…”

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Rencontres littéraires en prison ou comment voyager de l’ombre à la lumière

Frigon

2015

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En faisant un retour sur une démarche de création littéraire avec l’Association des auteures et des auteurs de l’Ontario français (AAOF) en milieu carcéral et ouvert au Québec, nous discutons comment la création littéraire peut offrir, bien que modestement, un espace d’expression et de reconquête de soi pour les personnes incarcérées.Based on writing workshops in prison and in the community, organized in collaboration with the Ontario Association of French Authors (AAOF), we examine how creative writing in prison can offer prisoners, albeit modestly, a space for expression and reconnection.Haciendo un retorno a un proceso de creación literaria con la Asociación de Autoras y Autores de Ontario Francés (AAOF), en el contexto penitenciario y abierto en Quebec, discutimos cómo la creación literaria puede ofrecerles a las personas encarceladas, aunque modestamente, un espacio de expresión y de reconquista de sí mismas

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“…The most famous contributors were, however, John Bunyan (1628-1688), whose famous The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) was written in prison, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), the author of "A Hymn to the Pillory" (1703), and John Cleland (1709-1789) with his "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748) (cf. Freeman 2009;Mullan 2009;Rotstein 2013). In the decades to come, the experience of incarceration influenced the work of two poets: Christopher Smart (1722-1771) (allegedly a madman, who spent six years in a madhouse [Sitter 2006, 24], and later in life, in 1770, was sent to prison for debt, where he died in 1771 [Sitter 2006, 27], and John Clare (1793-1864), who also was confined to a lunatic asylum (Nelson 2016).…”

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From the Profane to the Sacred: Prison-Space Transformations in G.G. Byron’s “The Prisoner of Chillon” and O. Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”

Kędra-Kardela

Kędzierska

2018

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A b s t r a c t. This study focuses on two prison poems: "The Prisoner of Chillon" by G.G. Byron and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by O. Wilde. It highlights the ordeal of the inmates with the emphasis on the change in their perception of the prison space. Based on M.-L. Ryan's definition of story space, it is argued that the changing perception of space in the poems reflects the spiritual transformation the protagonists undergo. The experience of confinement leads, in the case of Byron's protagonist, to the acceptance of prison life to the point of the dungeon becoming "a second home," sacred to him as a site of his brothers' burial. In Wilde's poem incarceration has a transformative function, culminating in spiritual awakening and in the development of faith in Christ's redemption. As a result of the change in both poems, prison becomes a space of prayer, turning thereby from the profane into the sacred.

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The Rise of Prison Literature

Cited by 16 publications

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Corruption and Healthcare Delivery: Towards a Progressive Intervention in Nigerian Correctional Centres

Corruption and Healthcare Delivery: Towards a Progressive Intervention in Nigerian Correctional Centres

Rencontres littéraires en prison ou comment voyager de l’ombre à la lumière

From the Profane to the Sacred: Prison-Space Transformations in G.G. Byron’s “The Prisoner of Chillon” and O. Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”

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