October 29, 2007, marks twenty years since the death of five prisoners in a riot and fire in the infamous Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in Victoria. Imprisoning Resistance resurrects these events and invites us to learn urgent lessons in our current age of supermax and privatised prisons, detention of asylum seekers, and the controversial use of indefinite detention under the banner of a "war on terror." One of Australia's first hi-tech supermax prisons, Jika Jika was designed to house and manage the system ...
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October 29, 2007, marks twenty years since the death of five prisoners in a riot and fire in the infamous Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in Victoria. Imprisoning Resistance resurrects these events and invites us to learn urgent lessons in our current age of supermax and privatised prisons, detention of asylum seekers, and the controversial use of indefinite detention under the banner of a "war on terror." One of Australia's first hi-tech supermax prisons, Jika Jika was designed to house and manage the system's "worst of the worst" prisoners. After several years of deaths in custody, escapes, assaults, murders, prisoner campaigns and protests, hunger strikes, and allegations of prison staff brutality, a dramatic protest fire in 1987 resulted in the deaths of five prisoners. The prison was closed and a series of inquiries were commissioned. Bree Carlton reconstructs events leading up to and surrounding the fire and deaths and critically analyses official responses.
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