the ‘abject’ (see also Kristeva, Julia), 149, 150, 153, 156, 233, 234

Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 27, 245n2

Adam Bede (George Eliot), 12n4

African-American inmates (see also colored inmates)

in real prisons, 25, 27, 35n8, 36n10, 163n8, 209, 213, 235

in fictional prisons, 116, 117, 154, 163n10, 168, 174, 175, 179, 208–213, 222, 235

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 12n4

Alcatraz Prison, 8, 26, 27, 36n9, 224n6

in fictional narratives, 115, 119, 157, 158, 162n2, 180, 183

Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood), 245n2

Allan, Elizabeth, 69

Amnesty International, 163n8

Armadale (Wilkie Collins), 12n4

Auburn system (see also ‘silent’ system), 23, 24

Auburn Penitentiary, 163n9

authorial narrator (see also ‘omniscient’ narrator), 9, 29, 38, 40, 64, 66, 67, 102n1, 104n20, 107n39

authorial novel, 80, 100, 230, 242, 243

definition, 4, 12n3

and the prison, 55–58

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), 245n2

Bacon, Kevin, 154

Bad Girls’ Dormitory (dir. Tim Kincaid), 245n1

A Bad Man (Stanley Elkin), 246n3

Bailey, John, 174

Bal, Mieke, 104n21

Ballhaus, Michael, 134, 154

Barnard, Ivor, 96

Baston, Jane, 108n50

Beattie, John M., 16

A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard), 242

Beccaria, Cesare, 17, 23

Becker-Kavan, Ingo, 36n9, 181

Bell, James, 146

Bellows, Gil, 162n3

Bender, John, 10, 13n8, 104n17, 230

Benigni, Roberto, 162n1, 221

Benjamin, Paul, 117

Bentham, Jeremy (see also Panopticon), 9, 12n7, 82, 98

Bialkowski, Brian, 74

Birdman of Alcatraz (Thomas E. Gaddis), 6, 8, 12n1, 115, 116, 120, 157, 180–187, , 193

Birdman of Alcatraz (dir. John Frankenheimer), 8, 102n2, 115, 119, 142, 144, 149, 157, 165n25, 180–188, 192, 193

Blandford, Steven, 153

Blundell, John, 149

borstals, 7, 15, 21, 22, 35n6, 163n12

in prison narratives, 8, 110, 112, 113, 120, 122–125, 130, 194–208, 222, 226n18, 226n24, 227n26