Prisons
Prisons were created with the objective of punishing individuals who had committed crimes against society. The basic premise of this idea was that by removing these undesirable individuals from the population they would no longer have the ability to harm society. Once these individuals were removed from society and brought into the prison system they created a new society, the prison society. Prisons have their own informal social organization, a society within itself that leads …
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…far longer than their sentence. By adapting to the prison community in!
dividuals lose the ability to connect with society and have problems feeling connected, in some cases the individual is unable to handle the adjustment, and is re-introduced to the prison community.
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