[Seven Long Times] joins the ranks of other first person accounts of imprisonment and testifies to the inhumane and generally repressive nature of those institutions.
For sociologists, Piri Thomas raises two related problems. The first is the analytical status of first person accounts. The second is the possibility of fully understanding institutions of repression within the same conceptual sphere in which these institutions understand themselves. (pp. 303-04)
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