
Is it desirable, and even possible, a society without penalty or prisons? Claimed by all, measure and natural means of punishment of oprobious behaviors, perhaps never before has the prison enjoyed such consensus. A culture of punishment and a society that has made
from the prison its hidden center, this is the object of criticism of this book.
That is why his bet is symmetrical and contrary: the abolition of jail. Arguments are not lacking. Raised in place of pain and corruption of the mind, prison is only the space for prolonged torture. The jail is therefore not that means of rehabilitation with which it is advertised in humanitarian terms. Its criminogenic nature is undeniable and only in the form of revenge, it manages to compensate the victims. Hence the irreformable nature of the prison archipelago. And hence also the need to articulate an abolitionism
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