This is visible in the US's immense privatised prison system, providing a convict labour force which, the author estimates, is bigger than the Soviet Gulag at its early 1950s height.
An immense array of prison cards (häftlingskarten) listed not only a person's name and usual statistics, but also the shape of his or her face (including eyes, nose, ears, teeth and lips) and the reason for the arrest.
The finished document is the most comprehensive account of atrocities perpetuated by the rulers of the "Hermit Kingdom" ever assembled and focuses largely on the regime's immense and horrific prison camp system.
Then there's the anonymous untitled photo above, which presents a stark, close-up image of a singular moment inside a facility that hints at the immense pain housed inside prison walls.
To the Editor: Your editorial about the immense cost of operating prisons in the United States neglected a major solution: proper treatment of mental illness in prison and after release.
At the tail end of the criminal justice system, house arrest is almost certainly cost-effective, because the costs of housing offenders and building new prisons is immense in comparison with the costs of monitoring offenders' home confinement or curfew.
Being gay in a woman's prison, however, yielded immense social capital, and shortly after being locked up, Mayo started receiving love notes from secret admirers written on toilet paper.
The War on Drugs resulted in an immense growth in court caseloads and the prison population.
There was his immense self-discipline, and his period in prison having been a perhaps necessary catharsis.
While confined in Newgate Prison, London, Wakefield saw firsthand the immense problems of the penal system and learned of the forcible removal of convicts to British overseas possessions, where squalid and often brutal conditions prevailed.
