Most of you have passed the forbidding structure just a short distance away from
us.The fortress with the large walls.
Would you like to visit the jail?
I am serious.
I went once and met the female prisoners.
And contrary to expectations they seem human, like all of us.
And there are children who have followed their mothers into jail because there is
nobody outside to look after them.
So in a way they are prisoners too.
And I thought about it. Just the experience of being shut away from the world.
waiting for a trial.
Being forgotten or abandoned by your family inside.
What if you were innocent?
But did not have the money for legal help?
And what happens when you leave jail?
Who will employ you? marry you?
Even though the term of imprisonment is over, you are never really out of jail.
Just a few stray thoughts.
The jailer says he has grants and would welcome engineering students working on projects there.
Acres of land where civil engineers can create developmental models.
Anyhow I would love to know your thoughts anyway on the whole concept of punishment and wherther prisons are industial age
left overs in the age of information.