1. Background and Definitions -- 2. Coping, Resistance, and Political Imprisonment -- 3. Escape: Resistance as Ridicule -- 4. Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest: Resistance as Self-Sacrifice -- 5. Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation, and Control of Space -- 6. Resistance and the Law: Prisons and the Political Struggle -- 7. Prison Management and Prison Staff -- 8. Reactive Containment, 1969-1975 -- 9. Criminalisation, 1976-1981 -- 10. Managerialism, 1981-2000 -- 11. Prisoner Release, the Peace Process, and the Political Character of the Conflict -- Epilogue: Political Prisons and the Construction of Memory -- App. I.A Selected Chronology of Prison Events, 1971-2000
Summary
Based upon interviews with former prisoners and staff, Kieran McEvoy's study relates their experiences to the broader literature on imprisonment of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
