Week 6: What is punishment?

Week 6: What is punishment? - Consequences apply to wrongdoer Deterring Rebalitation Proteecting the public/ public safety Set an example for people to understand/learn that the action is wrong What are the purposes and justifications of punishment? What is the role of the prison? - To protect society (keeping/separate people away from society) Prison being understand in different ways Kay questions: 1. What is the meaning of rehabilitation when prisoners are being prepared not for release but for deportation? 2. What exactly is punishment when a criminal conviction includes more than one kind of incarceration, as foreigners may be detained in immigration removal center prior to deportation? 3. Where punishment is located (and when does it cease) when a prison sentence may lead to deportation? Which state is administering the penalty and to what end? 4. What does the increasing number of foreign nationals in prison tell us about the role of the prison in carving out national identity? Is the prison aiding regimes of border control? - People see deportation as a punishment that never ends Foreign national prisoners:  Experience of FNPs: o More likely than citizens prisoners to suffer isolation in prison o Less likely to understand the penal system, their rights, the mundane daily rules and routines of prison life o More vulnerable to suicide and self-harm o Less likely to progress to open conditions or partake in meaningful rehabilitation programs o Important gender etc,er diffrences (masculinities and feminities ) as well as issues of race, ethnicity, culture. But little research o Unique ‘pains of imprisonment’ (Ugelevik and Damsa 2018)  Impacts on prisons: o Face challenges in dealing with prisoners struggling with immigration issues, many of whom may not be fluent in the official languages o Confusion/ambivalence amongst staff about their jobs and the role of the prison (Kaufman 2013) o New purpose/role in the service of border control?  Embedded immigration officials (e.g., UK)  Changing meanings of rehabilitation and reintegration Lived experiences of ‘carceral trajectories’ (Turnbull and Hasselberg 2017)  Experiencing ‘double punishment’ o Immigration detention (and deportability) experienced as a second or double punishment following sentence completion o Exacerbated by indefinite detention where former prisoners can ‘serve’ more time incarcerated (sometimes longer than the original sentence) o time in detention doesn’t ‘make sense’ like prison time typically does; time in detention is largely purposeless compared to prison  "Every day I'm thinking about the outside, when I'm going to get …..” - Some people believe after detention, they will be released to see their family, but be surprised that they are being deported after being hold in detention center for years = that what we mean by double punishment Immigration system doesn’t have right as criminal law The immigration system is not sufficient, many factors come to hand in each case that complicate the process and make people unsure what and how long they will be punished for -  No second chance o Carceral trajectories towards deportation deny former prisoners in immigration detention the second chances promised through imprisonment o Punishment doesn’t contain the anticipated rehabilitative and reintegrative logic available to citizens  “ … to be honest with you, I think they should give me a chance, Sarah. I'v changed. I've changed, Sara I've done courses ….....” - Prisoners are always seeing criminals mostly because of their citizenship, so they deport them no matter how they claim that they have changed by taking all the necessary programs and courses at the detention center.  Racialized and gendered experiences of punishment o The double punishment of immigration detention and deportation viewed as unfair because it’s bifurcated along the line of citizenship which is racialized o Gendered impacts of imprisonment, detention, and deportation; men felt emasculated through processes that removed them form their families and denied the (heteronormative) ability to work Discussion: L Research: Peer review exercise for group discousn Prepare: for the next class, we will talk in a small group and give feedback and share your plan, provide sequestion regarding any reading you have read that may help them in their paper - Look at what reading will use in your topic Outside research What argument will apply Your plan and develop your research paper