What Are Prisons For?

Hindpal Singh Bhui

What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years’ experience of visiting and working in prisons...

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Opening Credits

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Chapter 1: A Journey into Prisons

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Chapter 2: A Brief History of Imprisonment in the West

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Chapter 3: The Emergence of Prison around the World

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Chapter 4: Mass Incarceration, Race and Crime

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Chapter 5: Do the Crime, Do the Time? Who Are Prisoners?

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Chapter 6: Experiencing Prison

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Chapter 7: Where Next for Prisons?

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Ending Credits

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