steve.wilson
explaining
Sparks telling us some disheartening details about what his stay was like. This pictures gives some scale of how big the room is with the people in it, the next looks down the room. Apparently, most of the prisoners in the room were political prisoners. However, one of the interesting things Sparks told us is the prison system mixed common prisoners with political prisoners in the hopes the common criminals would make the political prisoners into common criminals and the political prisoners would forget about politics.
Pretty stupid.
The opposite happened - the political prisoners educated the common criminals - and the prison started punishing prisoners with solitary confinement and severly restricting the learning and education the prisoners had access too. I think Sparks said at one point Nelson Mandela was denied access to any form of reading or educational materials for four years during his 18 year stay on Robben Island.
explaining
Sparks telling us some disheartening details about what his stay was like. This pictures gives some scale of how big the room is with the people in it, the next looks down the room. Apparently, most of the prisoners in the room were political prisoners. However, one of the interesting things Sparks told us is the prison system mixed common prisoners with political prisoners in the hopes the common criminals would make the political prisoners into common criminals and the political prisoners would forget about politics.
Pretty stupid.
The opposite happened - the political prisoners educated the common criminals - and the prison started punishing prisoners with solitary confinement and severly restricting the learning and education the prisoners had access too. I think Sparks said at one point Nelson Mandela was denied access to any form of reading or educational materials for four years during his 18 year stay on Robben Island.