ABSTRACT

Focusing on social relations between participants and their relationships with people on the outside, this chapter examines the ways in which relationships, inside and out, affect and are affected by the adaptive strategies and pains of imprisonment covered in previous chapters. The chapter will consider how cultural capital needed to survive prison (and pre-prison) is hard won, yet undervalued by mainstream society. I examine the influence of intra-and extra-prison relationships on an individual’s view of their imprisonment within the context of their life story and their imagined futures.