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    were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners began placing the prisoner in to a cell with four of more inmates. Where his cellmates would harangue the prisoner. Physical and mental abuse in the form of beatings and humiliation‚ this would happen 24 hours a day for weeks or months a time. If a prisoner displayed particular resistance to the transformation‚ physical restraint that left the prisoner at the mercy of the other cellmates for basic physical needs such as

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    there are two prisoners and the police decides to sentence them by asking. Each prisoner has two choices. Stay silent to plead guilty himself or betray the other prisoner. The punishment for each situation shows in the chart. | Prisoner B stays silent | Prisoner B betrays | Prisoner A stays silent | Each serves 1 year | Prisoner A: 3 years Prisoner B: goes free | Prisoner A betrays | Prisoner A: goes free Prisoner B: 3 years | Each serves 2 years | What will the prisoners do? The choice

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    crime. Prisoners could often feel like this‚ as there are constantly criminals in their surroundings‚ Often groups of gangs‚ etc. | Social Contact | Interacting and spending time with people on a regular basis. | Without social contact‚ people cab feel lonely and isolated. Not having people spend time with can cause people to become stressed‚ as they would have no one to talk to about their issues. | In a care setting such as a prison‚ social contact could be very important as a prisoner could

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    The returning prisoner is wanting to tell the other about there being another better world out there than just the cave. The newly educated of the outside cave‚ Socrates says “when he remembered his old habitation‚ and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners” (202) that being the main reason for the prisoner to return. The thing that prevent this individual from tell the others‚ the prisoner has been so use to the outside world the prisoner was blinded due to the change in

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    between prisoners and those who they come in contact with both while in custody and on release. For example is a prisoner does not have positive support or role models in the community they come from it can means that when they return to that environment they will more likely reoffend again but if the prisoner can build a positive relationships this will lead to opportunities work or constructive study and the chances of reoffending are greatly reduced. It can be very hard for prisoner to have

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    first. The allegory of the cave begins with prisoners at the bottom of Socrates’ cave. These prisoners are bound there‚ unable to move their necks and legs. Behind them is a fire providing the only source of light for them‚ but they cannot see the fire. Between the prisoners and the fire is a wall‚ where there are people that hold up all different kinds of artifacts above it to cast shadows against the wall in front of the prisoners. The prisoners would suppose that the shadows passing in front

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    reality as the visible world and nothing more. It begins with the supposition that if a group of prisoners were chained to the wall of a cave‚ and are able to see what was in front of them; with a fire behind them‚ they would only be capable of seeing the shadows of the images as they passed by the fire. The prisoners would begin to identify the shadows as their reality. However‚ if one of the prisoners were to escape from the cave‚ he would be incapable of seeing anything at first‚ because the light

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    force you to clean your sleeping area‚ like the cell bars‚ the toilet bowl‚ make your bed‚ and fold the seat and table against the wall. Secondly when you are done cleaning your cell area then the second morning whistle blows‚ which means that all prisoners have to exit their cells when the warden or lieutenant say to. When they say to exit your cell then the inmates are counted. The inmates are counted thirteen times a day and sometimes even more. After you have finished all of these‚ you work all

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    of life” (Goffman‚ 1961:11). In other words‚ a total institution is a place where the residents live in isolation from society. This essay will draw into South African prisons as a total institution‚ how it governs and shapes the social life of prisoners. Institutions guide what we do and our social guidance that governs the behaviour of communities together with societies. An example of institutions would be open and closed institutions. “An open institution is defined as a system in exchange of

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    of the cave‚ it allows one to go in depth and be able to see a visual interpretation of the divided line of which Plato describes earlier in the text. The allegory begins with four prisoners chained in the bottom of a cave since birth‚ unable to move and only able to look at the wall ahead of them. Behind the prisoners is a long entryway in which there is a raging fire. From time to time people come forth and hold statues

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