ABSTRACT Between 2011 and 2013, prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay Prison launched three collective hunger strikes protesting long-term solitary confinement. At the height of the third strike, 30,000 prisoners across the state refused food, ultimately forcing California to alter and limit its use of solitary confinement. Collective resistance of this scale is rare in prison, especially in supermax facilities, which attack prisoners’ subjectivity and condition expressions of agency that are harmful to self and others. Through a rhetorical analysis of the imprisoned activists’ accounts of cross-racial coalition building, I argue that prisoners found means to survive and resist social death by restoring a discursive space across cells and by claiming control of their bodies through regimes of self-discipline. I conclude by considering implications for mainstream prison reform discourse.

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“比混凝土和钢铁更有弹性”：单独监禁中的意识提升、自律和身体抵抗

摘要 2011 年至 2013 年间，加利福尼亚州鹈鹕湾监狱的囚犯发起了三场集体绝食抗议长期单独监禁。在第三次罢工的高峰期，全州有 30,000 名囚犯拒绝食物，最终迫使加利福尼亚改变和限制单独监禁的使用。这种规模的集体抵抗在监狱中很少见，特别是在超级监狱中，它攻击囚犯的主观性和对自己和他人有害的能动性条件表达。通过对被监禁的活动人士对跨种族联盟建设的描述进行修辞分析，我认为囚犯通过恢复跨牢房的话语空间和通过自律制度要求控制自己的身体，找到了生存和抵抗社会死亡的方法。