Prisoners in Japan’s prisons suffer as do prisoners all over the world with regular beatings and solitary confinement which is a matter of course for those who transgress the rules. However what makes Japan’s system of abuses against prisoners worse is the authoritarian extenuation of Japan’s functional and hierarchical modes of daily life into prison life.

Bow, sit, lie on you bed, eat your food, wipe your face; indeed, any normal and habitual activity of the body done incorrectly and you will be punished. Sit in the middle of you cell, roll you bed up properly, do not talk unless you are given permission. Failure to meet these so called ‘rules’ results in absurd punishments such as having to sit in the same position for 10 hour stretches, for weeks at a time.

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