After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
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.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.