Prisons

Imprisonment has long been regarded as one of the central instruments of criminal justice. Despite its widespread use across jurisdictions, a fundamental question persists: what is imprisonment actually meant to achieve? Is it only a mechanism of punishment, intended to impose suffering proportionate to wrongdoing, or is it a tool for reform, aimed at preparing […]

For centuries, prisons have been imagined through a familiar image: towering walls, iron bars, locked cells, razor wire, and armed guards. We have come to associate punishment with confinement so completely that the very idea of a prison without walls appears almost contradictory. Yet such prisons exist, and in many parts of the world (especially […]