Updates
Way Down in the Hole tells the stories of people incarcerated and staff working in solitary confinement units. In the third installment, correctional officer Travis, a white man who has worked in solitary confinement for more than a decade, talks…
Earl Smith and Angela Hattery were featured on NPR’s The Takeaway with Melissa Harris Perry. Listen to the conversation to learn more about the use of solitary confinement in the United States and the impact of solitary confinement on both…
Way Down in the Hole tells the stories of people incarcerated and staff working in solitary confinement units. In the second installment, hear Shanique, a Black woman incarcerated in solitary confinement, describe what you lose when you are locked away,…
Way Down in the Hole tells the stories of people incarcerated and staff working in solitary confinement units. In the first of four installments, hear Candy, a Black woman incarcerated in solitary confinement, describe what it’s like NOT to be…
Kenneth H. Kolb First published: 07 June 2022 https://doi-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/symb.604 Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (Updated Edition) By Hattery, Angela J. and Smith, Earl ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) In the…
In this updated edition of Policing Black Bodies, Hattery (Univ. of Delaware) and Smith (emer., Wake Forest Univ.) respond to the changing environment of criminal justice in the US. Four years after the book’s initial publication, the authors revisit the…
Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement Angela J. Hattery & Earl Smith (2022) Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and civilian staff that we conducted in…
On the last day of June, 2021, Bill Cosby was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in his favor on a technicality in his sexual assault conviction. They did not rule that he was not guilty of…