Hard Rock Returns To Prisons: Poem Analysis

The focuses that I chose for a general topic toward the research proposal are based on prisons and the poem “Hard Rock Returns to prison from the Hospital for the criminal insane” by Etheridge Knight. These two topics have plenty in common where they state culture and identity throughout the general topic prisons where I found sources that relate with the poem.
Mayer, Edward E. "Prefrontal Lobotomy And The Courts." Journal Of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731) 38.6 (1948): 576-583. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.
This relate with the poem based on the focus on lobotomy and how it shut down part of your brain for control over a culture. That relates with the poem by Knight based on people that commit crimes and live in a community that respect culture and believe in force. In many cultures they find it necessary to enforce lobotomy to people who have mental health. In the source they would try to counsel him and hope for positive results as they cure the prisoner by a lobotomy. The robber would have normal intelligence and health. The courts believed in prefrontal lobotomy where they feel the need to execute criminals.
"Nicknames In Prison: Meaning And Manipulation In Inmate Monikers." Names (Maney Publishing) 62.3 (2014): 127-136. Humanities Source. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.
The prisoners associate life within prison and take the role of a person in a community as if he was outside the walls. Culture and identity became strongly approved by prisoners as everyone joins a group or culture that they can relate with during their prison sentence. This prison system gave the prisoners the hierarchy for to choose nicknames and change their