Introduction

Prison narratives have become the most common signifier to refer to a literary sub-genre which documents and reflects upon life in prison. [...]the discipline keeps, within itself, an urge to inquire about certain conditions oflife, those which often seem differential in relation to their own selves, and are in thought and experience, often exclusive and exigent. [...]during the ancient times, quarantining enemies was a practice amongst both kings and feudal lords. Since the medieval ages, the idea of confinement was exclusively pertinent to a sort of 'wait-list' where aberrant candidates were kept behind systems of surveillance. [...]discipline becomes central to the body economy which naturalizes power and the use of punishment as an accepted and expected form of socio-political life. (Division 39). [...]the definition of'crime' could differ from one age to the other, the degree of punishment could be directly related to the degree of deviance. [...]from the very beginning this result was achieved, although less perfectly. [...]between the punishment of today and yesterday there is no great gulf, and consequently it had no need to change to accommodate itself to the role that