This book is a collective work in which the reality of prison is articulated with its various definitions, highlighting the richness of the views and meanings that our society historically attributed to prison. The analysis of the interaction between criminal practices and social and cultural variables, in the first texts of the volume, indicates aspects that the dialogue between scientific and other social reasons can take. Consequently, in the following thematic sections, the analysis focuses on the images of prison as they emerge through various cultural productions (theater, literature, cinema, television, press, alternative media), as well as the discourse of the prisoner himself, both criminal and political.

Contents:

- Issues of prison theory and architecture
Nikos Paraskevopoulos: "The conflictual punishment (images, theory, things)"
Dario Melossi: "Criminal practices and 'government of populations' in Marx and Foucault"
Petros Martinidis: "Prisons. The constraints of a restrictive architecture"
- Prison and fiction: images of prison in theater and literature
Walter Puchner: "The image of prison in modern Greek drama. The prisoner and his worldview"
Chara Baconikola-Georgopoulou: "Prisons in 20th century theater"
George P. Nikolopoulos: "On the dialogue between criminology and literature: images of prison in Albert Camus' 'The Stranger'"
Vangelis Athanasopoulos: "Prisoners in fiction: The novel as a prison"
- Representations of prison in the media
Anna Lydaki: "'And if I get out of this prison...' Processes of self-deconstruction in the film 'Last Exit: Rita Hayworth'"
Eva Stefanis: "Female sexuality and prison in Greek commercial cinema: The example of 'Stefania'"
Athena Kartalou: "Imprisonment on television: conditions of representation and reading of the medium"
Aristeidis Nikolaidis: "Mass media and prison. The case of the uprising in Korydallos Prison in November 1995"
Pantelis Vatikiotis: "Releasing 'images'"
- Imprisonment: direct and indirect discourses
Afroditi Koukoutsaki: "Prison texts and the discourse of 'correctional' reform"
Michalis M. Meraklis: "The political prisoner through his narrative"
Thanasis Moutsopoulos: "The criminal artist. Brief historiographical notes on the art of prisoners"
Nikos Kataridis: "Prison in rebetiko songs".