deported: chapter 6: behind bars: immigration detention and prison life
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Chapter 6
Behind Bars:
Immigration Detention and
Prison Life
Class Goals• Develop an understanding of how and why
incarceration and detention rates have soared.• Develop an understanding of the difference
between incarceration and detention.• Develop an understanding of the consequences of
mass incarceration and mass detention.
Population under correctional supervision, 1980-2009
The U.S. is exceptional
Detention rates have soared
How is the rise in mass incarceration tied to neoliberal
economic reforms?
What are some of the legal differences between incarceration
and detention?Prisons and Jails Detention
• Serving time or awaiting trial.
• Right to a bond hearing after 72 hours.
• Right to a lawyer, even if you can’t afford one.
• Awaiting immigration hearing or deportation.
• Right to a bond hearing after 6 months.
• No right to legal representation.
How different or similar are incarceration and detention?
Questions for Discussion
• What are some of the long-term effects of mass incarceration?
• How does hypermasculinity contribute to the dynamics of violence in prisons?
• How and why do some deportees experienced detention as punitive?
• How does mandatory detention pressure detainees to accept deportation orders?
Class Goals: RECAP• Develop an understanding of how and why
incarceration and detention rates have soared.• Develop an understanding of the difference
between incarceration and detention.• Develop an understanding of the consequences of
mass incarceration and mass detention.