My subculture is "Women Behind Bars. " The field site I choose to observe was Clayton County Jail located at 9157 Tara Blvd in Jonesboro, Georgia. This jail houses men and women. As you enter the front of the jail area there is a very nice court house and right behind the court house is the jail. It looks like your average jail, with grey cement walls and little windows. You could see from the outside where the inmates had wriitten saying on their windows. As we entered ther jail house we had to go through alot of security and had to show ID. Unfortunately, we got there around the time that visting hours are over. So the inmate, which is my cousin, we could not get to interview. But the plus side was that i was able to interview an officer that worked at the jail. I was extremely nervous because i already knew that i was just going to get basic answers that were not going to be that detailed. I was able to find out that there are a total of 768 inmate cells. There are also about 2000 beds. I plan on going back to the jail sometime within the next week to get the interview with my cousin so i can get more details about what actually goes on behind bars. The whole experience overall was a great one. I really enjoyed learning about what is involved in this subculture.
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3 comments:
In doing your observation were you able to understand anything about the subculture even though you weren't able to see any interaction? it might be worth it to pay another visit to your site.
wow is those pictures of the actual jail u wnt to?
I was looking forward to seeing what information you had learned about women in jail. It seems like everytime I hear something about jail, it's about men in and jail and not women. I've never really heard about how the things women experience in jail.
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