New Article Published

Jo Bailey-Noblett has published an article with the Howard League ECAN Network based on her ethnographic doctoral research studies on ‘Residential Wing Regimes: An Impediment to Rehabilitation of Prisoners?’.

She argues that residential wings are a neglected focus of research in understanding the rehabilitative potential of prison. She employs a geological term - ‘unconformity’ - to convey the disjuncture between the logic, culture and practices of staff and prisoners in residential halls compared with those in spaces of prison where rehabilitation is formally meant to be ‘delivered’, such as classrooms and programme spaces. These two spaces of prison constituted distinct realities that did not sit easily together; ironically she found staff, not prisoners, became more routinised into their respective, spatially bounded, roles, and thus unable to adopt a rehabilitative ethos.