Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Temporal Regime
2. Time and Space
3. Temporal Allowances
4. Serving Time
5. No Future on the Horizon
6. Marking Time
7. Resistance and Temporal Agency
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
K. C. Carceral (a pseudonym) was incarcerated for thirty-one years
in twelve different prisons until his parole in 2013. He is the
author of Behind a Convict’s Eyes: Doing Time in a Modern Prison
(2004) and Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private
Prison (2006).
Michael G. Flaherty is professor of sociology at Eckerd College and
the University of South Florida. He is the author of A Watched Pot:
How We Experience Time (1999) and The Textures of Time: Agency and
Temporal Experience (2011). He is a coeditor of Time Work: Studies
of Temporal Agency (2020).
Michael Flaherty proves himself, once again, a masterful scholar of
time with this fascinating addition to his oeuvre. He and coauthor
K. C. Carceral’s focus on the ironic juxtapositions and
contradictions of incarcerated time yields brilliant and
provocative insights into the relationships between time, autonomy,
socially constructed meaning, and ultimately power. Anyone who has
suffered the temporal experience of being caged by the COVID
pandemic will find this a revealing and personally relevant
read.
*Patricia A. Adler, coauthor of Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in
the Global Economy*
This collaboration between an accomplished convict criminologist
and a leading sociologist of time presents a thorough exploration
of the ways prisoners experience time. But it does much more: it
helps the reader appreciate the many facets of time in all human
lives and confront the many unnoticed ways that time shapes our
thinking and being.
*Joel Best, University of Delaware*
Prisoners’ experience of time is unique and worth studying in
greater detail. The Cage of Days provides a thoughtful window into
how convicts experience time behind bars. Carceral and Flaherty are
experts, and they are able to blend insider and outsider
perspectives, autoethnography and scholarship, very successfully.
Highly recommended.
*Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D., author of Key Issues in
Corrections*
A book about prison life with a difference: immensely insightful,
extraordinarily sensitive and impressively scholarly. Over a
ten-year period of collaboration between a long-term prisoner and
an academic, the experience of prison is interrogated through the
lens of time. With this focus the authors achieve not only a deep
understanding of what it means to ‘do time’ in prison but manage,
simultaneously, to illuminate this taken-for-granted aspect of
everyday life on the outside, where the generally intangible time
emerges with great clarity.
*Barbara Adam, Cardiff University*
In addition to appealing to researchers interested in the sociology
of time, criminal justice, and symbolic interaction, the unique
nature of collaboration and co-authorship between Carceral and
Flaherty in this excellent book could prove beneficial in courses
on qualitative methodology as well.
*Symbolic Interaction*
An imperative to include within a corrections course, introductory
sociology course, or an introductory criminal justice class. It
would be appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate
students.
*Contemporary Sociology*
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