Isolation
In David Matlin's PRISONS: Inside the New America, a diary passage of a man who endured 18 years of his life in prison. He writes:
A prisoner is known to man as an object, not subject. In other words, the world is unaware of his inner circumstances, weaknesses, virtues, and finally presence. The things that lend meaning to his actions. All men, including felons, have inner depth others are not aware of… To be known merely as an object is to be unjustly known. One may feel incomplete, and do something irrational to fill the void… When a man is unknown he experiences solitude and a longing for death. For if you value yourself, but realize no one knows you, you might as well be dead. Thus, today’s prisons breed desperate men.
...A clear example of those who are excluded from the polis.
A prisoner is known to man as an object, not subject. In other words, the world is unaware of his inner circumstances, weaknesses, virtues, and finally presence. The things that lend meaning to his actions. All men, including felons, have inner depth others are not aware of… To be known merely as an object is to be unjustly known. One may feel incomplete, and do something irrational to fill the void… When a man is unknown he experiences solitude and a longing for death. For if you value yourself, but realize no one knows you, you might as well be dead. Thus, today’s prisons breed desperate men.
...A clear example of those who are excluded from the polis.
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