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«do I have the right to have rights»

by Jean Bérard & Gilles Chantraine

ce texte est également disponible en version française

There are two ways to miss the political issue of prisoner’s rights: by believing it can be resolved automatically through real estate and “prison modernisation”, or by considering it harmless, since new rights so often tend to engender new forms of control. It is only beyond this or that concrete aspiration that the demand for rights starts to reveal a thing or two. By resisting them, it sheds light on the imperatives around which the prison system is organised (for discipline yesterday, security today), imperatives that are always leading it to quietly go beyond the simple deprivation of liberty.

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published in french in Vacarme 40 winter 2008

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