The Pains of Mass Imprisonment

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware, USA), Jamie Longazel

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Routledge
30 July 2025

Prisons; Sentencing & punishment

Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel do this by weaving together empirical research on prisons with stories that rely on the voices and lived experiences of people who are locked up. This is an ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry. The new edition of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and scholarship, and extended pedagogical and learning materials.

By: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware USA), Jamie Longazel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032422039
ISBN 10: 1032422033
Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 30 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Series Foreword AcknowledgementsPreface: Learning and Teaching Pains Introduction 1. Containment 2. Exploitation (with Candice Duncan, Meagan Heatherton, Jamella Richmond, and Emily Rodriguez) 3. Coercion (with Mackenzie Niness) 4. Isolation 5. Brutality 6. The Pains of Migrant Imprisonment

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. For more than two decades, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on inequality, mass imprisonment, and the death penalty. Fleury-Steiner is the author of more than 30 scholarly journal and law review articles and numerous books, including Jurors’ Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality; Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison; and The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society (co-edited with Austin Sarat). Jamie Longazel is Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College and is on the International Migration Studies faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and co-editor (with Miranda Cady Hallett) of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas.

Reviews for The Pains of Mass Imprisonment

""The Pains of Mass Imprisonment is an incredibly important text for anyone who is interested in understanding more about incarceration and its consequences. This second edition offers timely examples that have emerged over the last decade (e.g., COVID-19), updated research, and a new chapter on migrant detention. The latter is an issue that has perhaps never been more relevant given the current political climate and promises for unprecedented “mass deportations” from the Trump administration as soon as January, 2025. 'Stories from the Inside' are another welcome addition. These accounts of lived experiences are not only compelling, they highlight the tragic lack of humanity that those who experience incarceration often endure and why this must change."" Meghan A. Novisky, Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Cleveland State University