It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.