| Description |
x, 292 p. ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Institute of Criminology monograph series ; no. 25
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| Summary |
Summary: "Imprisoning Resistance provides an experiential account of life and death in the controversial Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in Victoria during the 1980s. One of Australia's first hi-tech supermax prisons, Jika Jika was designed to house and manage the system's 'worst of the worst' prisoners. Several years of deaths in custody, multiple escapes, assaults, murders, prisoner campaigns and protests, hunger strikes and allegations of prison staff brutality escalated in 1987 to a dramatic protest fire that resulted in the deaths of five prisoners. The prison was closed and a series of inquiries were commissioned. Bree Carlton revisits this uncomfortable past and reconstructs events leading up to and surrounding the fire and deaths, while critically analysing official responses to the discreditable episodes, crises and deaths that plagued Jika Jika."--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
History of corrections |
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Prisoner grievances |
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Prisoner fatalities |
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Effects of imprisonment |
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Correctional facilities |
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Prisoner / staff relations |
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Prisons |
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Prison conditions |
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Melbourne |
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Violence |
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History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (p. 266-278) |
| Notes |
Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections materials are available for use in the Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room. Copying allowed with permission. NU |
| Subject |
Pentridge Prison (Coburg, Vic.). Jika-Jika High Security Unit
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Pentridge Prison (Coburg, Vic.) -- History
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Prison discipline -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
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Prison violence -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
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Prisons -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
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| ISBN |
9780975196755 (pbk.) : |
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