A facility of work and residence in which a large number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered and regimented round of life under one central authority. The sociologist Erving Goffman coined the term in a 1957 paper, expanded in his 1961 collection Asylums, and classed prisons, mental hospitals, military barracks and monasteries together as institutions sharing this same structure regardless of their differing purposes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A penitentiary built on strict solitary confinement is a classic example of a total institution's enclosed, single-authority regime.
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Erving Goffman coined "total institution" in Asylums (1961), the concept's originating and defining work.
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All aspects of life including sleep, play, and work, are conducted in the same place, under the same absolute authority.
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A facility of work and residence in which a number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered, and regimented round of life.
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Within three years of leading DYS, Miller had shut down the state's two juvenile reformatories in favor of community based alternatives to incarceration.
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