ENGLISH 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Democracy
7 Oct 2015
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The prison has become a looming presence in our society to an extent unparalleled in our history or that of any other industrial democracy. However, large prison populations led not to safer communities, but to even larger prison populations. A fear of thinking about what happens, inside them. Thus the large prison is present in our lives and at the same time it is absent from out lives. We take prisons for granted but are often afraid to face the realities they produce. This process turns the men, women, and children who live in these damaged communities into perfect candidates for prison. In some countries, like the us, where capital punishment has not yet been abolished, a small but significant number of people are sentenced to death for what are considered especially grave crimes. The prison is considered an inevitable and permanent feature of our social lives.
