Prison Town
Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York
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2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4311-9 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
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Andrea R. Morrell shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, New York, the town’s two prisons extended far beyond their walls, intricately connecting the two populations.
Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town—with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure in March 2022, the Southport Correctional Facility. Hundreds of locals work at the facilities, the town plays host to visitors of the incarcerated, and local medical institutions provide treatment to inmates. The prisons and Elmira are inseparable.
In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates the converging and shifting fault lines of race and class through a portrait of a prison town undergoing deindustrialization as it chooses the path of prison expansion. In this ethnography, Morrell highlights the contradictions of prison work as work that allows a middle-class salary and lifestyle but trades in other forms of stigma. Guards, prisoners, prisoner’s families, and meager amounts of money and care work travel through spaces of free and unfree via the porous borders between prison and town. As Morrell captures the rapid expansion of the carceral state into upstate New York from the perspective of a small city with two prisons, she demonstrates how the prison system’s racialized, gendered, and classed dispossession has crossed its own porous borders into the city of Elmira.
Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town—with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure in March 2022, the Southport Correctional Facility. Hundreds of locals work at the facilities, the town plays host to visitors of the incarcerated, and local medical institutions provide treatment to inmates. The prisons and Elmira are inseparable.
In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates the converging and shifting fault lines of race and class through a portrait of a prison town undergoing deindustrialization as it chooses the path of prison expansion. In this ethnography, Morrell highlights the contradictions of prison work as work that allows a middle-class salary and lifestyle but trades in other forms of stigma. Guards, prisoners, prisoner’s families, and meager amounts of money and care work travel through spaces of free and unfree via the porous borders between prison and town. As Morrell captures the rapid expansion of the carceral state into upstate New York from the perspective of a small city with two prisons, she demonstrates how the prison system’s racialized, gendered, and classed dispossession has crossed its own porous borders into the city of Elmira.
Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Deindustrialization, Racialized Labor, and Prison Expansion
Chapter 2 Who Built the Southport Correctional Facility?
Chapter 3 Doing my Zero to Eight
Chapter 4 Policing the Carceral State
Chapter 5 Porous Prison
Chapter 6 Prison Visiting in a Prison Town
Conclusion: Abolition and a Free New York
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Contemporary North America |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-4311-0 / 1496243110 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-4311-9 / 9781496243119 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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