This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ¿dangerous¿ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners¿ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ¿adaptation¿, ¿coping¿, and ¿resistance¿. Drawing on ethnographic data generated in two high-security prisons housing male offenders, this book explores how the various spaces of the prison affect prisoners¿ sense of self and experience of time, and how, in particular, the indeterminate nature of their imprisonment affects their perceptions of place and space.