BREAKING THE LAW

READING

TASK 1 Look first the pictures. Then read the questions and answer what you think

* What is a prison? Give a definition. Place where the convicted or the presumed guilty of a crime is kept.

* How do you think prisoners live? I think they live isolated from society with few comforts in small spaces confined
by security guards

* Do you know what prisons are like in your own country? Yes, I know what prisons are like in my country, since they
present documentaries or news about prisons on national television.

* Do you believe that all prisons are the same around the world? I do not think that all prisons in the world are the
same as it varies from the country's economy and its culture

TASK 2 Read the text PRISONS AROUND THE WORLD. Imagine one of the prisons.

Prisons Around the World

At the beginning of the module, we saw that justice is a social construction.
Each society is different from the others. Prisons are the result of how each
society chooses to punish people who do not comply with the established social
contract. For this reason, prisons around the world are so different.
In some countries, prisons are horrible places. Inmates live in overcrowded cells
like in Haiti’s Civil Prison, el Buen Pastor Women’s prison in Bogota where each
cell is filled up with 20 inmates, or the Maula prison in Lilongwe, Malawi, in
The Maula prison in Lilongwe,
Malawi
Africa where almost 200 prisoners can be crammed into a cell
suitable for 60 people. In other countries, especially in Northern
Europe, prisons seek tha the inmates can rejoin society when they
finish their sentence.
For this reason, prisons are places where criminals rehabilitate. The
cells in prisons of countries like Norway, Germany, or Sweden are
comfortable single or double bedrooms with TV, private toilet,
musical instruments, some even have video games.
Detention Unit, the Hague, Netherlands

TASK 3 VOCABULARY. From the reading match the words with corresponding synonym.

1 Punish ( d) a) Full of 6 Cells ( h) f) Bathroom

2 Comply (c ) b) To replete 7 Suitable ( i ) g) Relaxed
3 Inmates (e) c) To obey 8 Seek ( j ) h) Room
4 Overcrowded (b) d) To discipline 9 Comfortable ( g) i) Appropriate
5 Fill up ( a) e) Prisoners 10 Toilet ( f ) j) Look for

TASK 4 After reading the text answer the following questions.}

A According to the text, how are prisons around the world different?
According to the text, prisons around the world differ from how a society chooses to punish people who do not
comply with the social contract.
B What has the “social contract” to do with the amount of people in a cell?
The social contract that is included has a lot or nothing to do since if you do not comply with the social contract, you
will be treated in the same way or otherwise it will help you reform

C Identify and describe the two categories of prison in the text.

The text identifies two types of prisons, the first where the prison is a crowded place in which a group of people are
piled up in a cell and the treatment of the prisoners is of little concern and the second where a cell fits. maximum
two people and have comforts becoming a place where prisoners rehabilitate

D Which one of the categories in the text exists in Ecuador?

In Ecuador there are two types of prisons since in certain parts of the country such as Guayaquil there is a lot of
crime so the prison is crowded and they accommodate inmates as best they can while in Latacunga a new prison was
created with better conditions and various workshops inmates can attend to rehabilitate
E Do you Know other types of justice in Ecuador?
I do not know any other type of justice since I am not aware of the laws

TASK 5 Fin the following words in the alphabet soup

Prison justice society social horrible overcrowded cells

inmates criminals rehabilitate judgement

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