Great god, that is torture, not imprisonment!

…student at Coventry, UK. The prison introduced a new type of system called the Pennsylvania System. Each prisoner was held in solitary confinement over the length of their sentence. Every time a prisoner left a cell, a cloth sack was placed over their head so that they couldn’t see any of the other prisoners. The only people a prisoner could see were guards. The reason was not of punishment, but rather penance. The prison was constructed to promote prisoners’ thought and reflection. The new system drove the p…
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Mark Ainscow
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May 26, 2019
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Great god, that is torture, not imprisonment! What a horrible place and an even worse idea of punishment.
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I was always a writer but lived in a bookkeeper’s body before I found Medium and broke free — well, almost. Working to work less and write more.
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