Prison life puts the ‘time work’ we all do into sharp relief
Trapped in an ocean of time, prisoners exemplify the human impulse to take temporal experience into our own hands
by Michael G Flaherty
Michael G Flaherty is professor of sociology at Eckerd College and the University of South Florida. He is the co-author, with K C Carceral, of The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (2021), about what time does to prisoners and what prisoners do to time. He is also the author of A Watched Pot (1999) and The Textures of Time (2011).
Written by Michael G Flaherty