A person wakes up at six o'clock in the morning. He didn't choose this time - the central fluorescent light in the cell turned on and the sound of a metal key in the lock echoed down the hall.

In the next sixteen hours, he will decide almost nothing. He does not decide when the door will open, when he will go into the hallway, when he will be fed, with whom he will share the space, when the light will be turned off. Every movement is prescribed by order.

1. Total institution and extinction of autonomy

Sociologist Erving Goffman described the concept total institution. In ordinary life, a person sleeps, works and spends his free time in different places under different authorities. In a prison, all these spheres collapse into a single space.

The average adult makes thousands of small micro-decisions in a day that reinforce a sense of self-efficacy (self-efficacy). In jail, this feature is disabled.

2. Paradox of freedom: When adaptation destroys life outside