Persy’s Reviews > Are Prisons Obsolete? > Status Update

“The prison has become a key ingredient of our common sense. It is there, all around us. We do not question whether it should exist. It has become so much a part of our lives that it requires a great feat of the imagination to envision life beyond the prison.”

“The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited.”

“The prison is present in our lives and, at the same time, it is absent from our lives.”

“The prison is considered so “natural” that it is extremely hard to imagine life without it.”