Prisons
“We will turn this prison from a scrap heap into a repair shop. ”
Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of New York's Sing Sing Prison
Faced with prison overcrowding and a record number of suicides, the prison administration is questioning the purpose of prisons. Is the solution to build new prisons, or to find alternatives to incarceration? You will give a psychologist’s opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of detention during a class debate.
- Listening 1: Earning college degrees in prison freethink
- Listening 2: What solitary confinement does to the brain Seeker
- Reading 1: Locked up and vulnerable: When prison makes things worse BBC.com
- Reading 2: Should prisons be abolished? New internationalist