ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part provides a vision of what prison-based research could be: inclusive and participatory, responsive and restorative. It describes author's frustrations and anxieties with the “impenetrable language” her Institutional Review Board required her to share with participants as part of the informed consent process, as well as how she eventually learned to use these awkward moments, mired in bureaucratic language, to build rapport with her participants. The part also describes how authors' struggled with the knowledge that their participants had to undergo strip searches (a practice “akin, in many ways, to sexual assault”) in order to be interviewed. It then echoes Rudes's and Pierson's concerns about identity stripping in prison: “multiple, and simultaneous, forms of marginalization can strip a person of their agency and voice, rendering them powerless and muted”.
