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The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from an 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned

Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest.[1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply coincidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.

  1. ^ Tony Perrottet. "Serving the Sentence", New York Times Book Review, July 24, 2011.

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Human rights in the Imperial State of Iran

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