Education, Gossip and Social Carcerality: Contesting the Liminal Spaces Between Incarcerated Body and Incarcerated Mind
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Abstract
A prison's social geography is secondary to the maintenance of its built landscape but is still a product of intentional design.State apparatuses used to incarcerate create environments for gossip and the weakening of social networks.Gossip feeds distrust as a means of social control.Post-secondary education in prison provides opportunities, reduces recidivism, normalizes behaviours, but also exposes the shadows created by gossip.In the 'inside' classroom, truth is contested rather than manufactured, and relationships between 'inside' bodies and 'outside' bodies emerge.Education can be an intentional act of abolition, one that displaces gossip and disrupts statist social control.Volume 34(1), 2025 down or start to fade.Friendships and relationships on the 'inside' become increasingly important, and in some cases can be a matter of survival.The isolation and insulation from the outside that occurs for imprisoned folks, however, can also make one increasingly vulnerable to those inside social networks and to inside gossip. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons,In this paper, we explore the intersections between the physical and the socio-psychological conditions of the prison, between disinformation and education.In doing so, we illustrate how social stress and gossip extends the punishing conditions of carcerality and devalues human connections.Gerty refl ects on her experience in prison and in particular how people are treated by staff that contributes to low self-esteem while inside: It's not even just what you did, it's the way you are treated every day.They act as if you're contagious and diseased.They don't touch you or your belongings without gloves, and their attitude is if you're lucky, we might be able to fi x you, and you might be able to leave here and have a chance at not returning.This messaging is reinforced, over and over, and that's just one example of how depressing this place can be.Gerty B (she/her) is a mother and works full-time.She is also an activist supporting women coming out of prison and engages in academic writing.Gerty is formerly incarcerated and is now living on parole on Treaty 1 Territory, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline and Nehethowuk Nations, and homeland of the Red River Métis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".