Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood by Ben Crewe & Susie Hulley & Serena Wright

Author:Ben Crewe & Susie Hulley & Serena Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137566010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Accordingly, one area where some mid- and late-stage prisoners felt relatively helpless was in relation to the reports that contributed to decisions about their progression and release. As Willis (30s, mid) commented, ‘you don’t know what’s being written behind your back, and you don’t know what the decision’s going to be at the end’. Reflecting on the ‘tightness’ of institutional power, and, in particular, the influence of the bureaucratic file (Crewe 2011), some prisoners declared themselves indifferent to what was written about them, because this was beyond their control or because they regarded their behaviour as, in any case, pro-social. Often, however, they expressed anxiety and frustration about living ‘in a goldfish bowl’ in which ‘everything you do, you say, you don’t do, is documented’ (Jenny, 20s, mid), and where the content of reports often felt unfair, arbitrary, difficult to challenge and highly consequential: ‘a couple of sentences wrong on one report can lead to another two or three years in jail’ (John, 20s, mid). We return to such matters in Chapter 7.

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