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'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin Jun 2013

'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country’s first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spatial tactics, and the philosophy of punishment underlying them, contrast with the modern reform ideals upon which the prison was designed and built in 1932. The SMU represents the latest punitive phase …


Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Men's Modesty, Religion, And The State: Spaces Of Collision, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Men's Modesty, Religion, And The State: Spaces Of Collision, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Geographical Literacies And Their Publics: Reflections On The American Scene, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Geographical Literacies And Their Publics: Reflections On The American Scene, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.