am going to take the reader on a journey of enquiry. For some of you the landscape we will explore will be familiar: the lived experience of incarcer- ated space. For others, the terrain may be unfamiliar and, at times, disturb- ing. The words this chapter opens with have haunted me from my very first reading of Brian Keenan’s account of his captivity as a hostage in Beirut. They evoke a negation of temporality—the making of time mean- ingless. I frequently encountered this sense of time in pastoral encounters I experienced after I changed ministerial roles in 2012. After over two decades in English parishes, I entered Her Majesty’s Prison Service in England and Wales as an Anglican chaplain. I always read the passage from An Evil Cradling as offering an invitation to enter the world of those held captive. Entering the lived experience of those who sought pastoral care is something I understood to be my role as a chaplain. It is something I likewise invite you, the reader, to do: ‘Come with me’.
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می‌خواهم خواننده را به سفری پرس و جو ببرم. برای برخی از شما منظره ای که ما بررسی خواهیم کرد آشنا خواهد بود: تجربه زیسته فضای زندانی. برای دیگران، زمین ممکن است ناآشنا و گاهی آزاردهنده باشد. کلماتی که این فصل با آنها شروع می شود، از همان اولین خواندن روایت برایان کینان از اسارتش به عنوان یک گروگان در بیروت، مرا آزار می دهد. آنها نفی موقتی بودن را برمی انگیزند – بی معنی ساختن زمان. من مکرراً در برخوردهای شبانی که پس از تغییر نقش وزیر در سال 2012 تجربه کردم، با این حس زمان مواجه شدم. پس از بیش از دو دهه در کلیسای انگلیسی، به عنوان کشیش آنگلیکن وارد سرویس زندان اعلیحضرت در انگلستان و ولز شدم. من همیشه قسمتی از گهواره شیطانی را به عنوان دعوتی برای ورود به دنیای اسیرانی می خواندم. وارد شدن به تجربه زندگی کسانی که به دنبال مراقبت های شبانی بودند، چیزی است که من می فهمیدم نقش من به عنوان کشیش است. این چیزی است که من نیز شما را دعوت می کنم، خواننده را انجام دهید: "با من بیا".
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Two years into my studies, the death in custody of a man I was involved with pastorally became the tragic motivation for the focus of the enquiry this book describes. The man was found hung in his cell one morning at first unlock. He was serving an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). The indeterminacy of the sentence meant that he knew neither when or if ever he would be released. The last time we spoke he stated his belief that he would only be released “in a body bag”. He had lost hope. I will return to this story in Chap. 5. The quote from An Evil Cradling resonated for me with the hope diminishing indeterminacy which is a central theme of my pastoral enquiry and that has led to the self-inflicted death of a number of people serving an IPP sentence in England and Wales. The passage’s invitation evokes Keenan’s intention to draw the reader into his incarcerated state. He wishes the reader to study it from the inside out. An Evil Cradling’s nar- rative approach inspired the ethnographic methodology I have followed in this enquiry. Employing this approach, I have sought to access the lived experience of the seventeen men on an IPP sentence who volunteered to be interviewed (see Chap. 4). A core aim of my pastoral exploration as here recorded is to invite the reader to follow me into carceral space and enter the lived experience of those weighed down by indeterminacy
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