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IS THE USE OF LAW TO CHALLENGE PRISON CONDITIONS *OR* POLICIES A FORM OF HEROIC REBILLION OR QUIXOTIC DELUSION? AT STAKE IS NOT SIMPLY THE ONE ABSURD ASPECT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION LIES IN ACQUIESCING TO CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE THAT PROMOTES UNNECESSARY SOCIAL DOMINATION.------------------------------------------------------------THE INMATE IS FOCED W/CERTAIN DILEMMAS IN HIS RELATION W/THOSE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY OVER HIM. HE CONTINUES TO EXIST IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUBJECTION, AT BEST PATERNALISTIC, AT WORST REPRESSIVE & ARBITRARY. THE BEST WAY FOR HIM TO ACHIEVE IS GOAL OF GETTING OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBILE REMAINS CONFORMILY & PASSIVENESS ON HIS PART TOWARD THE PRISON SYSTEM. HE IS EXPECTED, HOWEVER, TO STRESS SELF=DETERMINATION & INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AS A REHABILITATIVE PRISON LIFE BECOMAS AN ALLEGORICAL ANALOGUE TO OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE IN WHICH THE POTENTIAL TO ACT IS ABSTRUCTED & SOCIAL ACTORS REMAIN POWERLESS RELATIVE TO THEIR POTENTIAL TO ENGAGE & TRANSCEND THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. VOLITIONAL BEHAVIOR SUPPRESSED OF PACIFIED LAEADS ONLY TO ORGANIZATIONALLY DETERMINED IDENTITIES, ONE BECOMES WHAT THE ENVIRONMENT DICTATES. SAME AS THE OUT SIDE WORLD.--------------------------------------------------IS THE JAULHOUSE LAWYER A “PRIMITIVE REBEL” OR HAVE MANY OVERLY ROMANTICIZED THE PHENOMENON? DOES HE OBTAIN LIBERATION FROM THE FORM OF LAW ITSELF? OR, ARE JAILHOUSE LAWYERS INADVERTENT CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PRODUCTION TO THE RULS OF LAW IDEOLOGY…. A STUDY OF JAILHOUSE LAWYERS & JAILHOUSE LAWYERING MAY ALSO TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT PRAXIS WITHIN A TIGHTLY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT WHICH MAY IN TURN ENLIGHTEN REFORM MOVEMENTS IN THE FREE WORLD..
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