CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prisons have always struck fear in people’s hearts. From the dawn of history they have been used to lock human beings away who have either been anti-social or run afoul of somebody’s politics. Next to torture and taking someone’s life, incarceration is the severest penalty society has for miscreants and dissenters. Prisons
Louis XIV, Keeper Of France’s Infamous Prisons, Would Have Understood Guantanamo
It is a modern symbol of arbitrary power that ignores due process and the rule of law.
