This edition of Prison Service Journal, guest edited by Dr Andrew M Jefferson and Dr Tomas Max Martin, looks at everyday prison governance in a number of African countries.
In this edition:
- Editorial Comment: Everyday Prison Governance in Africa, by Dr Andrew M Jefferson and Dr Tomas Max Martin
- ‘Some prisons are prisons, and others are like hell.’ Prison life in Rwanda in the ten years after the genocide, by Carina Tertsakian
- Everyday Prison Governance in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, by Frédéric Le Marcis
- Masculinity, sex and survival in Zambian prisons, by Anne Egelund
- Power, Control and Money in Prison: the Informal Governance of the Yaoundé Central Prison, by Dr Marie Morelle
- Entangled governance practices and the illusion of producing compliant inmates in correctional centres for juvenile and young offenders in Ghana, by Dr Lilian Ayete-Nyampong
- Governance through power sharing in Ghanaian prisons: a symbiotic relationship between officers and inmates, by Thomas D Akoensi
- Prison Officers in Sierra Leone: paradoxical puzzles, by Dr Andrew M Jefferson, Mambu C Feika and Ahmed S Jalloh
- The importation of human rights by Ugandan prison staff, by Dr Tomas Max Martin
- Skipping Without Rope, by Jack Mapanje
- Civilising Criminal Justice: An International Restorative agenda for Penal Reform, by David J Cornwell, John Blad and Martin Wright (Eds) (reviewed by Paul Crossey)
- Globalization and Crime: Second edition, by Katja Franko Aas (reviewed by Dr Jamies Bennett)
- The globalization of supermax prisons, by Jeffrey Ian Ross (Ed) (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
- Carceral spaces: Mobility and agency in imprisonment and migrant detention, by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
