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The Negotiated Identities of Long-Term Inmates: Breaking the Chains of Problematic Integration

How long-term inmates perform any number of identities across the span of a prison career is a question that must be negotiated by each individual as he struggles with the perils of life behind bars. With a phenomenological and grounded theory approach, this study sought to demonstrate how inmates in a men's maximum security prison enact their evolving identities across the span of their incarceration and what challenges they experience in doing so. Problematic integration further clarifies these challenges. Namely, negotiating multiple divergent identities results in significant uncertainties, ambivalence, and divergence as inmates struggle with how best to communicate.