Abdul Mahmud: The children of Kirikiri and the dearth of humanity

Oscar Wilde was unsparing of the prison system of his time. Perhaps it was for good reasons he interrogated the idea of the prison. In his highly regarded poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, he launched scathing attacks on the prison regimes, exposed the pernicious and inhuman conditions of Reading Prison where he was incarcerated... Read More