Abstract

People with learning disabilities’ experiences of punishment and prison life remain invisible within prison policy and research. With participants’ voices central, this paper makes visible the hidden harms experienced by a hidden population, exposing the multi-faceted and nested forms of harm that people with learning disabilities encounter while in prison as a result of direct and indirect discrimination. It highlights the ways in which they navigate prison life and respond to structural and inaccessible barriers that adversely impact their understanding of their sentence, access to services, and ontological security. By drawing together conceptual and methodological insights from disability studies and prison sociology, I offer new insights into the distinct yet challenging aspects of prison life for people with learning disabilities.

中文翻译：

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监狱生活对学习障碍人士的隐藏危害

摘要

在监狱政策和研究中，学习障碍者的惩罚和监狱生活经历仍然是隐形的。本文以参与者的声音为中心，揭示隐藏人群所经历的隐藏伤害，揭示学习障碍者在监狱中因直接和间接歧视而遭受的多方面和嵌套形式的伤害。它强调了他们如何驾驭监狱生活并应对结构性和难以接近的障碍，这些障碍会对他们对刑罚的理解、获得服务和本体安全产生不利影响。通过汇集来自残疾研究和监狱社会学的概念和方法论见解，我为有学习障碍的人提供了关于监狱生活独特但具有挑战性的方面的新见解。