Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
Walled In is a podcast co-produced by Street Roots and The Exiled Voice. In each episode, co-hosts Emily Green and Joshua Wright explore a different, lesser-known aspect of what it means to be incarcerated in America. Audio editing and music by Bryan Miller.
This episode of the "Walled In" podcast explores how the lack of positive physical contact affects people who are incarcerated.
In the first half of the episode, co-host Joshua Wright, a former prisoner, speaks with Latrice Williams about how the physical separation from her children and prison rules prohibiting touch affected her while she was incarcerated.
“We’re used to social distancing in prison,” Williams said, “because you can’t really be next to nobody.”
Wright reflected on how, in the male prison population, touch became associated with violence.
In the second half of the episode, co-host Emily Green talks to Tiffany Field, the founder and director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, about the science behind human touch and the effects of going without it. [Read excerpts of their conversation.]
“We haven’t directly studied prisoners, but we can basically extrapolate from the information we have on many other conditions, that anyone who isn’t touched for a prolonged period of time is going to be depressed,” Field said. “And we know from our studies that they will also become aggressive.”
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