Prison towns are the sites of many relationships:  between corrections facilities and the surrounding population, inmates and corrections officers, inmates and other inmates, or inmates in their own self-examination. “Outside Looking In” examines how a town in which major prisons are established relates to those incarcerated there. “Corrections Officers” addresses the changing role of those who interact with inmates on a day-to- day basis.  “Social Structures Inside” explores the complex connections guards—later redefined as corrections officers—build with inmates and, later, “offenders.”  Finally, “The Imprisoned Self” considers how the circumstances of incarceration to an extent separate the prisoner from his or her prior identity as a free individual, yielding a reconsideration of self not only in relation to others, but in a distinctive form of isolation.