The politics involved in cell-sharing reach into the most personal parts of prisoners’ lives and are highly determinate of their experiences of imprisonment. While there is a small amount of research on the impact of cell-sharing on personal wellbeing and prison quality, much less has been written about the daily dynamics and significance of negotiating shared space under conditions of coercion. In this paper, based on in-depth research undertaken in England & Wales, we explore the experience of cell-sharing and how dynamics in the cell matter both intimately and socially. Essentially, we locate the cell as one of the primary sites of ‘where the action is’ in prisons, and where matters of safety, dignity and abjection are of particular relevance.

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上铺，下铺：监狱中的牢房共享

共享牢房所涉及的政治涉及囚犯生活中最私人的部分，并且高度决定了他们的监禁经历。虽然关于共享牢房对个人福祉和监狱质量的影响的研究很少，但关于在胁迫条件下协商共享空间的日常动态和意义的文章却很少。在本文中，基于在英格兰和威尔士进行的深入研究，我们探讨了细胞共享的经验以及细胞中的动态如何在亲密和社交方面发挥作用。从本质上讲，我们将牢房定位为监狱中“行动所在”的主要场所之一，安全、尊严和受虐问题特别相关。