The concept of prisonization is defined as “ the process of learning how to exist in prison—theappropriate attitudes and behaviors, the norms of prison life” (Allen et al., 2018, P.173).As described inour reading prisons are ‘total institutions’, meaning every prisoner’s movement, activity, and option arecarefully regulated by prison staff (Allen et al., 2018). Prisoners are typically given very minimalopportunity to be individual, they have minimal responsibility and therefore they quickly adapt based onsurrounding to learn how to best exist in their new locations (Allen et al., 2018). Prisonization allows theprisoner to learn what they can and cannot do (or get away with). It allows them to learn whose incharge, correctional officers or the inmates, who runs what, and ultimately what buttons can be pushed.Establishing their place and understand prison culture will set their ways for the duration of their stay.Which could bring peace or violence. Even the most secure prison system can be influenced by areincarcerated prisoner, who may have run the ranks in their last containment or attending in the pastwhen it was a weaker prison system that has since been revamped. Allen et al. shared, “ It impedes
