Few doubt that the correctional system is in terrible shape: prisons are overcrowded, parole and probation officers are overwhelmed, recidivism rates are sky high, prisoners' health and the health of the communities that they return to are endangered, and the costs to run this failed system take up an astronomical amount of funds -- funds that could be spent more wisely elsewhere.
Today, when prisoners are older and in worse physical shape, and prison sentences last far longer, prisons are becoming engines of disease.
It is shaped like a letter K because German princess Katherine became Russian tzaritza Katherine the Great, so obedient Russians started to build prisons in the shape of letter K.
I picked up one of the stones, to our guide's alarm, as a souvenir: I have an awful feeling now that they were shaped by prison labour.
In the next few years, reintegration programs such as the one at the Kabul juvenile center — which is run by Afghans but bolstered by foreign supporters, including the United States — are expected to take shape at prisons across the country.
It's become the story of our time – London's transformation from a smattering of villages populated by whistling Rastas and rag-and-bone men, to a futurist battlefield of blood-money Bugattis and skyscrapers shaped like prison weapons.
Initially hard to read, the chaotic lines of each drawing eventually reveal rectilinear shapes — the three wings of the propeller-shaped Saydnaya prison.
By any measure, Sayre, 120 miles west of Oklahoma City, was in perilous shape before the prison opened.
Eastern State Penitentiary shaped the modern prison system.
After the private sector first entered the world of incarceration, in 1983, a handful of companies quickly began to exert a disproportionate amount of power in shaping the American prison landscape.
