Appealing to justice : prisoner grievances, rights, and carceral logic /

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"Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners' written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United Sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Calavita, Kitty (Author), Jenness, Valerie, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Grievance procedures for prisoners > California.
Prisoners > Civil rights > California.
Prisoners > California > Social conditions.
Prisons > Law and legislation > California.
Griefs des prisonniers > Californie.
Prisonniers > Droits > Californie.
Prisonniers > Californie > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Grievance procedures for prisoners.
Prisoners > Civil rights.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Prisons > Law and legislation.
California.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rights, captivity, and disputing behind bars
  • "Needles", "haystacks," and "dead watchdogs" : the Prison Litigation Reform Act and the inmate grievance system in California
  • Naming, blaming, and claiming in an uncommon place of law
  • Prisoners' counternarratives : "this is a prison and it's not Disneyland"
  • "Narcissists," "liars," process and paper : the dilemmas and solutions of grievance handlers
  • Administrative consistency, downstream consequences, and "knuckleheads"
  • Grievance narratives as frames of meaning, profiles of power
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Procedures for interviews with prisoners
  • Appendix B. Procedures for interviews with CDCR personnel
  • Appendix C. Coding the sample of grievances.

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