Number-One Enemy: Police, Violence and the Location of Adversaries in a Papua New Guinean Prison (Report) Number-One Enemy: Police, Violence and the Location of Adversaries in a Papua New Guinean Prison (Report)

Number-One Enemy: Police, Violence and the Location of Adversaries in a Papua New Guinean Prison (Report‪)‬

Oceania 2011, March, 81, 1

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INTRODUCTION When a police car enters the main compound of Bomana gaol, Papua New Guinea's largest correctional facility, inmates in the vicinity stop what they are doing and stare. Men in grass cutting work gangs unbend and hold their machetes to watch as the blue vehicle passes through them and up the driveway. Lines of convicts, loitering outside the reception area as they wait to see the prison chaplain or petition the welfare warders, hush and adjust their gaze. Those assigned to sweep offices or store the property of new arrivals interrupt their tasks to seek out a better vantage point. All eyes follow as the police car turns and parks, its doors open and the Constabulary members step out. The first thing inmates notice is whether the policemen are uniformed or plainclothes detectives; if the latter, they search the figures further, to see whether they might recognize their investigating officer. This look is long and hard, intentionally menacing but also born of fear. For, as many of the prisoners I met stated, everyone knows that the police are their 'number-one enemy' (nambawan birua). The assertion is not casually made. Inmates genuinely loathe and detest policemen. They are, to quote prison autograph or souvenir books--the inmate equivalent of the school-leaver's yearbook (see Reed 2006: 159, 162)--the 'most hated'; subjects, it is often promised, upon whom 'revenge' will one day be taken.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2011
March 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
40
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Sydney
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
228.7
KB

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