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Pictured, is Josh Price.<\/p><\/div>\n

For Josh Price, the path to publication started in the Broome County Jail. Price, a SUNY Binghamton professor, recently released Prison and Social Death<\/i>, a book about the social harms of incarceration. The work that led to his most recent publication began back in 2004, when he responded to an ad in the newspaper. The local branch of the NAACP wanted help looking into a mass of letters they\u2019d been receiving from Broome County Jail inmates. Intrigued, Price attended the next meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in part out of interest,\u201d he said, \u201cand in part because I thought this would be a way of getting involved in the community.\u201d His academic background \u2013 and the subject of his first book \u2013 was in studying violence against women, so he\u2019d picked up interviewing techniques that he thought might be of use in talking with inmates and investigating the claims. Thus, that same year he began collaborating with the NAACP and by the following year he\u2019d gotten his students involved.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/a>

The cover of Josh Price\u2019s release, Prison and Social Death.<\/p><\/div>\n

He diligently investigated the claims \u2013 many of which were about sub-standard medical care \u2013 but said that overall, the changes that work produced were limited. He said, \u201cIn some individual cases, if something really egregious seemed to be going \u2013 if we met with the person a lot and the NAACP wrote a letter of concern \u2013 in some cases there was individual improvement of care.\u201d Sometimes, though that improvement in care was accompanied by retribution from authorities.<\/p>\n

Even today \u2013 in the aftermath of an investigation and fines levied by the New York State Office of the Attorney General against the private healthcare provider used in the Broome jail \u2013 Price said, \u201cMy sober assessment is \u2026 the healthcare is still really egregious there and there\u2019s a lack of accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Price\u2019s book grew out of those collaborative efforts, however limited their success was. He said, \u201cThe book in some sense tries to make sense of all those things that I was learning and to see what\u2019s happening in the jail in a systematic way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the interviewing wound down, Price got involved in other aspects of criminal justice reform. At the urging of two formerly incarcerated students, Price shifted his gaze to issues surrounding reentry and parole. Again, he says that he didn\u2019t effect much change, but he learned a lot along the way.<\/p>\n

After all that time interviewing and advocating for current and former inmates, Price came to a number of realizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go to prison, institutional violence seems to be part of prison, along with systematic humiliation and natal alienation and together I argue that those amount to social death,\u201d he said. Institutional violence, he explained, does not always mean literal violence, but can include a wider set of harsh limitations and conditions created by the prison system \u2013 such as substandard medical care. Humiliation, he found, seemed inherent to the correctional system. Those factors are combined with natal alienation \u2013 separation from one\u2019s family \u2013 and thus, he said, \u201cI argue in the book that being sent to prison means social death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prison and Social Death <\/i>was released by Rutgers University Press in July and Price said there\u2019s a book launch party planned for the Book Vault in Endicott this fall, at a date yet to be decided. Also, on Sept. 17 he\u2019ll be reading at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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