This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell. It discusses the complexities of this specific carceral space and addresses its significance in relation to the everyday experiences of incarceration. The collected chapters highlight the array of processes and practices that shape carceral life, adding the cell to a rich area of discussion in penal scholarship, criminology, anthropology, sociology and carceral geography. The chapters highlight key aspects such as penal philosophies, power relationships, sensory and emotional engagements with place to highlight the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary perspectives on the prison cell: a contested place of home, labour and leisure. The Prison Cell¿s empirical attention is global in its consideration, bringing together both contemporary and historical work that focuses upon the cell in the Global North and South including examples from a variety of geographical locations and settings, including police custody, prisons and immigrant detention centres. This book is an important and timely intervention in the growing and topical field of carceral studies. It presents the only standalone collection of essays with a sole focus on the space of the cell.

Focusses uniquely on the prison cell, to emphasize its importance in the embodied and everyday experiences of incarceration

1. Dissecting The Cell: Embodied And Everyday Spaces Of Incarceration, Jennifer Turner And Victoria Knight.- 2. 'The Solitude Of The Cell': Cellular Confinement In The Emergence Of The Modern Prison, 1850-1930, Helen Johnston.- 3. Prison Cells As A Grounded Embodiment Of Penal Ideologies: A Norwegian-American Comparison, Jordan M. Hyatt, Synøve N. Andersen And Steven L. Chanenson.- 4. The Kubol Effect: Shared Governance And Cell Dynamics In An Overcrowded Prison System In The Philippines , Raymund E. Narag And Clarke Jones.- 5. 'I Feel Trapped': The Role Of The Cell In The Embodied And Everyday Practices Of Police Custody, Andrew Wooff.- 6. A 'Home' Or 'A Place To Be, But Not To Live': Arranging The Prison Cell, Irene Marti.- 7. Prison As Palimpsest: The Dialectics Of The Cell And Everyday Life, The ACE Steering Committee.- 8. Power In "No-Cell" Detention: Spatial Restriction And Domestication Of Space For Foreign Detainees In Romania, Bénédicte Michalon.- 9. A Family Cell: Visual Ethnography In A Prison 'Mothers' Section', Rossella Schillaci.- 10. Serving Time With A Sea View: The Prison Cell And Healthy Blue Space, Jennifer Turner, Dominique Moran And Yvonne Jewkes.- 11. Hearing Behind The Door: The Cell As A Portal To Prison Life, Kate Herrity.- 12. Prison Cell Spaces, Bodies And Touch, Elisabeth Fransson And Francesca Giofrè.- 13. Prisoncloud: The Beating Heart Of The Digital Prison Cell, Jana Robberechts And Kristel Beyens.- 14. Carceral Projections: The Lure Of The Cell And The Heterotopia Of Play In Prison Escape Hanneke Stuit.