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20859 - Prisons and the Production of Lives and Deaths

Sat, August 9, 2:00 to 3:30pm, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Concourse Level/Bronze, Wrigley

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This papers in this session expand understandings of how prisons exert productive power. Together, they explore the construction and consequences of prison officer subjectivity, carceral stigma, death and dying behind bars, race-gender subordination in penal institutions, and cultural representations of life on the inside.

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