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.

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Victoria Knight is Senior Research Fellow for the Community and Criminal Justice Division in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK. She has expertise and research experience in the use of digital technologies in prisons; emotion and criminal justice; and offender education. She is the author of Remote Control: Television in Prison (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Jennifer Turner is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research is concerned with spaces, practices, and representations of incarceration, past and present. She is the author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (Routledge, 2017).

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List of Figures 
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Dissecting the cell: Embodied and everyday spaces of incarcerationJennifer Turner and Victoria Knight
Part One: The Nucleus
Chapter 2: 'The solitude of the cell': Cellular confinement in the emergence of the modern prison, 1850-1930Helen Johnston
Chapter 3: Prison cells as a grounded embodiment of penal ideologies: A Norwegian-American comparisonJordan M. Hyatt, Synøve N. Andersen and Steven L. Chanenson
Chapter 4: The Kubol effect: Shared governance and cell dynamics in an overcrowded prison system in the Philippines Raymund E. Narag and Clarke Jones
Chapter 5: 'I feel trapped': The role of the cell in the embodied and everyday practices of police custody Andrew Wooff
Part Two: Cytoplasm
Chapter 6: A 'home' or 'a place to be, but not to live': Arranging the prison cellIrene MartiChapter 7: Prison as palimpsest: The dialectics of the cell and everyday lifeThe ACE Steering Committee
Chapter 8: Power in no-cell detention: Spatial restriction and domestication of space for foreign detainees in RomaniaBénédicte Michalon
Chapter 9: A family cell: Visual ethnography in a prison 'Mothers' section'Rossella Schillaci
Part Three: The Cell Membrane
Chapter 10: Serving time with a sea view: The prison cell and healthy blue spaceJennifer Turner, Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes
Chapter 11: Hearing behind the door: The cell as a portal to prison lifeKate Herrity
Chapter 12: Prison cell spaces, bodies and touchElisabeth Fransson and Francesca Giofrè
Chapter 13: PrisonCloud: The beating heart of the digital prison cellJana Robberechts and Kristel Beyens
Chapter 14: Carceral projections: The lure of the cell and the heterotopia of play in Prison Escape Hanneke Stuit
Afterword Ben Crewe
Index