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From Janet Semple, Bentham’s Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. pp. 129-133. “Each cell is an island...” Semple describes Jeremy Bentham’s complicated attitudes toward solitary punishment: necessary and yet inhumane, a “barbarous perfection.”
From Janet Semple, Bentham’s Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. pp. 152-159. “...a mill for grinding rogue’s honest.” Bentham’s ideas on the criminal mind, the reforming influence of work in prison, and fantasies of never-ending labour. Semple is also an anti-Foucauldian I guess?
Should Life in Jail be Worse than Outside, on Principle? By Chris Barker
Should Life in Jail be Worse than Outside, on Principle? By Chris Barker
Sheriff’s House and Jail in Easton, Maryland, c. 1881
Approximately 2.3 million people in the United States are currently in prison or jail. (Prisons are run by federal or state authorities; jails are run locally.) China, a non-democratic regime with a population four times larger than the US, incarcerates fewer persons in per-capita andabsolute terms. What’s more, most people in US jails today…
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