Du vacarme individuel aux causes collectives : Les luttes carcérales en Suisse romande et le Groupe Action Prison
Damien Keller (not his real name) was just over 25 years old when he joined the Établissements de la Plaine de l'Orbe (EPO) in the Canton of Vaud in 1983. The young man was characterised by a demanding and quarrelsome attitude which resulted in a major conflict with the prison administration. B...
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| Language: | English |
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Criminocorpus
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/10032 |
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| Summary: | Damien Keller (not his real name) was just over 25 years old when he joined the Établissements de la Plaine de l'Orbe (EPO) in the Canton of Vaud in 1983. The young man was characterised by a demanding and quarrelsome attitude which resulted in a major conflict with the prison administration. But the prisoner also wrote a series of long texts in which he gave his thoughts on the Swiss prison system. Prison work, arbitrary imprisonment, the practice of solitary confinement, social reintegration, prisoners' rights, and the competence of staff: the issues raised resonate strongly with the demands of the anti-prison movement, which was then in full swing. Keller's prison vicissitudes question the conditions that make the denunciation of the prison system possible and acceptable. This contribution addresses in turn the exemplary dimension of his writings, their insertion into the protest movement in French-speaking Switzerland around the emblematic Groupe Action Prison (GAP), and finally the dividing line that distinguishes the authorised and legitimate expression of revolt from modes of action and complaint deemed excessive and pathological. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6907 |