The Corrections Myth
How prisons operate as total institutions, and how they produce and reproduce — rather than correct — a ‘criminal class.’
The point, after all, is to change the world.
How prisons operate as total institutions, and how they produce and reproduce — rather than correct — a ‘criminal class.’
How do incarcerated young people experience the ultimate exclusion from society? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the juvenile prison system, Danish sociologist Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson and graphic artist Sara Busch tell a fictional story about life behind bars.