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THE PRESENTATION OF PLACE IN EVERY DAY PRISON LIFE

This research explores how the physical and symbolic features of prison shape the daily lives of convicts, prison officers, and social and health workers, impacting their intergroup relations. The Mental Sketch Mapping Method is used, where participants draw maps of their prison space and discuss their movements and emotional experiences within it.

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THE PRESENTATION OF PLACE IN EVERY DAY PRISON LIFE

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  1. III International Conference for Carceral Geography THE PRESENTATION OF PLACE IN EVERY DAY PRISON LIFE Maddalena Rodelli Università degli studi di Padova

  2. RESEARCH QUESTION How do the physical and symbolic features of prison influence everyday life experience of convicts, prison officers and social and health workers affecting their intergroup relations?

  3. THE MENTAL SKETCH MAPPING METHODInspired by Lynch (1960) • Participants are asked to draw a map of their lived and experienced space in prison • Participants are asked to show on the map their detailed movements on an average day • Participants are encouraged to talk about the space also in relation to the emotions and sensory experience elicited by the prison environment. PARTICPANTS: 10 convicts, 10 prison officers, 10 social and health workers

  4. ANALYTIC TECHNIQUESInspired by Gieseking (2013)

  5. MOM(Mechanics of method)

  6. DE(Drawing elements)

  7. NOP(Narrative of places)

  8. P(Personalization)

  9. SCALE & FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

  10. EMOTIONS «Thisis the mainproblemat the ICATT: how to spend the time (…) Youcannotwait to go out, for your turn to finish and to be substituted… or maybe just even to take a break… Otherwiseyou’re always there immobile» (prison officer) «it’s a mix of boredom and delusion. Of course, there are momentswhenyoulaugh and joke, butthen… youhave to think a lot in here… And thisalsobeacause, sincethereis nothing to do here, youcannotgettired and you are notable to sleep» (convict) «In the end we are alsoimprisoned(…) to stay in prison innocently for fourtyyearsholdis hard for me» (prison officer) «The bars, beinglocked up in the cell, the barswithin the cell… it’s a prison» (convict) «Sometimesitseemsthat the prisoners are controlling the prison officer… Like ifwe are a minority, because in the end the prison officer is alone, locked up in his box, with alltheseprisonersaroundhim… I mean, it’snotpleasant» (prison officer) «Thisis the worst thing: thislittlehole to look inside the bathroom, a spyhole» (convict)

  11. OMITTED ELEMENTS & ACCURACY OF SCALE OF INCLUDED ELEMENTS CONVICTS PRISON OFFICERS SOCIAL AND HEALTH WORKERS

  12. NODES • CORRIDORS AND HALL OF SECTIONS «The hall is the place where everybody lands in the end, because from hereyou can go to the yard, you can reach the stairs from here…» (prison officer) «During the first month I wore out a pair of slipperswalking up and down thiscorridor, youmeet a lot of peoplebutit’sdifficult to have a useful conversation with anyone» (Convict) «The corridoris an interesting place. Depending on the time and on the case you can meet a lot of convicts or nobody. Thhereforeit’s a place whereyou can stay and take a look atwhathppens, meet more and lessknownfaces» (Psychologist)

  13. NODES • DOORS AND GATES «Whenyouarriveyoufind the first of 1500 doors, they open it and, ifyouhave an authorization, you can enter. Thenthereis a second door: the CC is on the right, the ICATT on the left. Another door, youwait, iftheyseeyou ok, otherwiseyouhave to ring… they open the door. The third one. Thereis a fourth door to arrive in the office over there.At the end of the corridorthereisonther door, iftheyseeyouthey open it and you can go upstairs. Another door, and we are atsix!» (Educator) « When I work at the ICATT, I close the door, becauseyou can neverknowf…or a half hour I would like to... I have my problems, for example. It happens that some day I have my problems and I have to listen to the prisoners with their problems, which often are stupid ... I do not want to listen to them. If I close the door the inmate automatically does not approach. I close it. I have the keys, I lock myself inside, I can do it (...) I repeat, I do it for survival. Because if they see that the door is closed ... you put a barrier” (Prison officer)

  14. DISTRICTS & USE OF COLOR

  15. TERRITORIALITY “This is the only space really “ours”, not administrated by prison officers and obviously it is a space that we defend a lot (...) Clearly some officers can come here, educators can come here, Sert operators can come here also.. In short, it is clearly a place open towards others, but it is fundamentally the place of the ICATT’s equipe” (Psychologist) “ Ithappensveryoftenthat health workers lock themselves inside. Theyclose the door. And, evenif the door has a verticalglass band allowing you to see what happens inside, you see little (…) closing the door ... That is, you psychologist make me understand: "this is my environment, I'm working, I'm listening to the prisoner" because you close the door ... Anyway, it’s a shutdown (...) This is like differentiating the roles, also physically” (Prison officer)

  16. INVASION OF PRIVACY

  17. CONCLUSION: DRAMTURGICAL TEAMS

  18. CONCLUSION: THE FRONT STAGE “However, entering in thereis to have a responsability, you are forced to dominate. Becauseyouhave the responsability. I mean,they call you and then the fact that I have never imposed myself with anyone in my life ... Being there and being forced to do it even for the smallest thing ... You have to get used to it. And you're forced to get used to it, otherwise you'll lose the section and get in trouble” (Prison officer) “We, the nurses, have to stand all together, like a single block. We must always agree on everything, we must work in the same way, otherwise… ” (Nurse)

  19. CONCLUSION: THE BACK STAGE • PRISON OFFICERS: guardroom « When I work at the ICATT, I close the door, becauseyou can neverknowf…or a half hour I would like to... I have my problems, for example. It happens that some day I have my problems and I have to listen to the prisoners with their problems, which often are stupid ... I do not want to listen to them. If I close the door the inmate automatically does not approach. I close it. I have the keys, I lock myself inside, I can do it (...) I repeat, I do it for survival. Because if they see that the door is closed ... you put a barrier” (Prison officer) • HEALTH WORKERS: office/infirmary «Obviously the office on the one hand isyour shelter, whenyouhavefinishedyour group activities, whenyou are tired and you need to think, to plan» (Psychologist) «The infirmary it's definitely the place where one says: ok! You keep working because, as you can see, here too there are many things to do, but calmly, calmly» (Nurse) • CONVICTS: backstage deprivation

  20. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION INFO: maddalena.rodelli@gmail.com

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