Traversing sites of confinement : post-prison survival in Sierra Leone
In February 2006 a group of over 50 former fighters were released from Freetown's central prison after over six years' incarceration. This article traces the ways they handled the move from one form of confinement to another and shows how everyday life for former combatant, ex-prisoners is fashioned according to contingent, unpredictable features of the post-war, post-prison landscape.
Source: Prison service
journal ; no. 187
These are mediated through worldviews that developed prior to
confinement as well as in response to their particular personal and
collective histories of violent conflict, imprisonment and ongoing
feelings of dislocation and ontological insecurity.