The male world of everyday life in prison - subcultures behind the bars
The male world of everyday life in prison - subcultures behind the bars

Summary/Abstract: There are many thousands of people in Polish penitentiary institutions who, for a certain reason, went behind a high wall. The vast majority of them are males who shape their everyday life day by day, giving it a certain rhythm. Meanwhile, prison areas can be seen in shades of gray or black. They are only perfunctory observations and illusions of an observer from the outside, since predominantly the unofficial sphere often acquires various colors of lives of both individual inmates and specific groups of co-inmates. This applies with a greater intensity to the phenomenon of the prison subculture, which, despite visible and inevitable changes, continues to gather its supporters around specific styles of behavior and holistic functioning in a situation of imprisonment. Being a male in an isolated environment has its own profile and is often located in the lens of the "second life". Outlining the composition and nature of prison or prison masculinity is an interesting challenge and remains in the sphere of future research explorations.

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