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Prison

Prison
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Overview

place in which people are, for legal reasons, physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms

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  1. There shall be three prisons in the state: the first of them is to be the common prison in the neighbourhood of the agora for the safe-keeping of the generality of offenders; another is to be in the neighbourhood of the nocturnal council, and is to be called the 'House of Reformation'; another, to be situated in some wild and desolate region in the centre of the country, shall be called by some name expressive of…

    Plato, Laws

    The author is tied to Prison in the knowledge graph; names Prison twice.

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  2. It is time now, however, to cast a glance into the Prisons. When Desmoulins moved for his Committee of Mercy, these Twelve Houses of Arrest held five thousand persons. Continually arriving since then, there have now accumulated twelve thousand.

    Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

    The chapter “Chapter 3.6.V. The Prisons.” is titled for Prison; names Prison several times.

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  3. Sojourn in a place of refuge resembles imprisonment in that it limits personal freedom. One might, therefore, be inclined to suppose that, through a further development other than that described above, the sanctuary led to a gradual moderation of punishment by introducing the practice of _imprisonment_.

    Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

    Names Prison twice.

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