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Prison Bodies and Social Death Prison Bodies and Social Death
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Tropes of Silence Tropes of Silence
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Case Studies of Psychotropics and Silence Case Studies of Psychotropics and Silence
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Conclusion Conclusion
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13 Prisons Matter: Psychotropics and the Trope of Silence in Technocorrections
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Published:August 2016
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Abstract
In this chapter, we theorize the ways in which the use of prescription psychotropic drugs in U.S. prisons creates forms of material existence in which prisoners’ bodies become silenced. Beyond their ostensibly legitimate purpose to treat psychiatric disorders, psychotropic drugs are also a part of the field of technocorrections, the strategic use of biotechnologies to manage prisoners’ bodies and to facilitate unjust policies that reproduce mass incarceration. First, we sketch two political contexts, biopolitics and necropolitics, which can account for the new realities of technocorrections in prisons. Psychotropics transform the silencing function of prisons by manufacturing a new kind of interior silence within the spirit/soul/psyche of prisoners. This experience of spirit murder is mediated through a necropolitics that fosters a violent separation of human material existence from the spirit/soul/psyche of the prisoner, a new form of material existence that we both illuminate and challenge. Then, we develop an interpretation of the trope of silence within feminist and critical race theories as a framework for analyzing the distribution of psychotropics as a process within the domain of technocorrections. To accomplish these aims empirically, we analyze a brief series of case studies where psychotropics perform this silencing function within the prison system.
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