Alcatraz (n.) is the prison that became a postcard for people who will never be locked up.
Alcatraz (n.) is punishment with a view, sold back as a day out
Alcatraz (n.) is remembered as both inescapable and a prison that people broke out of.
The Concentration camp (n.) required no monsters, only a long chain of people each responsible for one small step.
A Concentration camp (n.) was built with a payroll, a supply chain and a filing system, all of them ordinary.
The Concentration camp (n.) is the attempt of mankind to achieve complete equality.
The Concentration camp (n.) made death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive). Thus it robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
A Correctional facility (n.) is a waiting room where the wait is the treatment.
A Correctional facility (n.) is a local employer that needs the same customers back.
A Correctional facility (n.) is punishment that rents beds by the year.
A Correctional facility (n.) is like a school where the only subject offered is the one that got everybody in.
Death row (n.) is where a lawyer's filing schedule becomes a man's lifespan.
Death row (n.) turns a last meal into the one choice the state still lets a man make.
Death row (n.) is a sentence served twice, once in the waiting and once at the end.
Death row (n.) is a hallway where waiting is already the sentence.