Sibling intimacy and shared humor can restore morale in detention.

Evidence

The two girls held each other’s sanity like a locket, and Rasha felt the life breathing back into her. She and Reem began cracking all kinds of jokes about prison life (jokes that Rasha has since blocked out). They played games with each other. They looked down at their prison-issue jumpsuits and Converse shoes and resolved never to wear Converse shoes again. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 105

Categorization

• XREF: The sibling-prison coping dynamic echoes the brother-sister bond in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, where kinship is literal survival infrastructure.