Doing Time Alone Chapter 4 Summary

In the book “Doing Time Together- love and family in the shadow of the prison” by Megan Comfort, in chapter three and four was very precisely about how each women suffer with their husband ,or boyfriend being in prison. Therefore chapter four shows how each inmate considers jail their way of living, when they start calling it “home”. Otherwise they would have a very hard time adjusting their way of living, but not just for the inmate but for each wife that waits for them or visits them, hoping someday they can be a family again. Having to struggle by visiting them or even to wait for a simple call, it can be a real struggle and not just for them but for each kid that struggles to see their father. On daily basics the wife or girlfriend has …show more content…
Therefore, she might be also willing to have full responsibilities and they might perhaps be in charge of the whole situation. But lastly, chapter four “Papa’s house: The Prison as Domestic Satellite,” we can infer that each wife is scared for their husband to end up in a cycle of the prison. But, sometimes is hard when it comes about the family, the difficulties of explaining a father’s incarceration to the children, such a huge role a mother needs to accomplish. In this chapter basically is as a lot to by how the incorporation of the norms of the prison life into one’s habits of thinking feeling, and acting which may become chronic and deeply internalized so that, even though surrounding condition may change, but each inmate perspective doesn’t. This can also be characterized as by “institutionalization” when each wife is scared that their husband may become accustomed to San Quentin during his months/years in prison. It can be said by having a relationship played out in the grip of the “carceral