The walls of prisons are invested with a strange kind of energy: whether implacable or erotic, they are never simply structural. The Marquis de Sade wanted to beat his brains out against them, Jean Genet was moved to kiss them. To confine, secure, rehabilitate or punish: the prison has several, sometimes contradictory aims, but however humane its approach, penal architecture is essentially cruel
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