Growing research associates education with a number of positive outcomes for prisoners, the institution, and society. The process whereby inmates acquired this set of values and behavioural guidelines as they adapted to prison life he termed 'prisonization', which he defined as the 'taking on, in greater or lesser degree, the folkways, mores, customs and general culture of the penitentiary'. A scene in, London In this world, for Clemmer, these values, formalized as the 'inmate code', provided behavioural precepts that unified prisoners and fostered antagonism to prison officers and the prison institution as a whole. Clemmer's text, based on his study of 2,400 convicts over three years at the Menard Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary where he worked as a clinical sociologist, propagated the notion of the existence of a distinct inmate culture and society with values and norms antithetical to both the prison authority and the wider society. Inmate culture The founding of ethnographic prison sociology as a discipline, from which most of the meaningful knowledge of prison life and culture stems, is commonly credited to the publication of two key texts: Donald Clemmer's The Prison Community, which was first published in 1940 and republished in 1958 and Gresham Sykes classic study The Society of Captives, which was also published in 1958.
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