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In the 1960s television series The Prisoner (1967–68), a British agent, kidnapped and knocked unconscious, finds himself in a mysterious seaside enclosure called The Village. The Village’s inhabitants use numbers in lieu of names, and the series hero is repeatedly referred to as Number Six. Suppressed, surveilled, and supervised by numerous tools—physical barriers, security monitoring systems, and mind-control operations, Number Six is at the mercy of his nameless, faceless captors, first among whom is Number One. Our hero, however, refuses to submit; he is relentless in his efforts to escape The Village and defy his captors. ‘I am not a number,’ he bravely cries out, T. am a free man’.
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Aviram, H. (2015). Afterword. In: Reiter, K., Koenig, A. (eds) Extreme Punishment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441157_13
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