Why do hospitals feel like prisons sometimes?

Because you are deliberately made to feel powerless: 1. You are in an institution which you are not supposed to leave until told to do so. 2. read more

Doctors (especially) can come and go - like prison guards - to check your chart etc. without even telling you who they are or why they're there. 8. You're expected to unquestioningly follow the orders of said uniformed personnel. read more

When the students were given time to actually act like children on the playground, they were often admonished for "acting like animals" when they returned to their classrooms. Of course, my first-year teachers do not buy into this ideology of repression. read more

I know several corrections officers who have worked at larger jails and prisons; there are differences, some significant, between their jobs and mine, but the experience is similar enough that I feel qualified to answer. read more