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society's pause button for people it would rather forget than fix.
means The act of confining someone in a prison, or the state of being so confined, as a penalty or by force.
from From Old French 'emprisonnement,' built on 'prison' — which traces back to Latin 'prensio,' a worn-down form of 'prehensio,' meaning a 'seizing' or 'taking hold of' (from 'prehendere,' to grasp). So at its root, imprisonment is simply the state of having been grabbed and not let go — the law's hand closing around a person.
- oldest punishment
- Ancient debtors were jailed until relatives paid up
- american outlier
- US holds about 20 percent of world's prisoners
- solitary effect
- Days alone can permanently rewire the brain
- reform irony
- Penitentiaries were invented to inspire penitence, not vengeance
- cost reality
- Some cells cost more yearly than Ivy League tuition
nelson mandela — south african anti-apartheid leader imprisoned 27 years on robben island (1962-1990)
guantanamo bay detention camp — u.s. military prison in cuba holding terror suspects since 2002, 40+ detainees remain
bastille — french fortress-prison stormed july 14, 1789, sparking the french revolution