Abstract
ABSTRACT A dramatic shift in penal philosophy has occurred over the past thirty-years. Incapacitation and punishment have effectively replaced the rehabilitative goals of mid-20th century corrections. To assess how this change has affected the day-to-day lives of inmates, face-to-face interviews with men currently incarcerated in a maximum security Missouri prison, as well as historical accounts of “doing time,” are used. Findings show that past accounts of doing time show striking similarity to modern day explanations of everyday life in prison. Results lead one to call into question the impact penal ideology, whatever it may be, has on the experience of doing time in U.S. prisons.
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