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Prisoners' Bodies

- Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985

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In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today. Prisoners' Bodies is the first book on the history of the ordinary prisoners' movement, a prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of the prisoners' organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lived experience and their politics. The stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoner's publications, and archival material. Prisoners' Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780228022954
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Udgivet:
  • 12. november 2024
  • Størrelse:
  • 150x226x20 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 408 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today. Prisoners' Bodies is the first book on the history of the ordinary prisoners' movement, a prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of the prisoners' organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lived experience and their politics. The stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoner's publications, and archival material. Prisoners' Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.

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