Most people think that a prison is where all the bad people go when they get caught doing horrible naughty things in society by the police with its prison guards, walls, iron bars, cell blocks, wardens, and bright orange matching uniforms, but you see that is not the only prisons that exists. There is another prison I like to talk about or describe, it's called the open air prison of poverty where you exist as the run of the mill lower caste segment in society of untouchables.
This prison you're allowed to wander around so long as you have the right amount of money in your pocket, this prison has barriers, walls, and iron bars but they're largely invisible to the naked eye, yet the outcasted untouchables within society knows them all too well everywhere they go. Just like prison where your movement is heavily restricted so it is for society's caste of untouchables but instead of visible physical guards in place with their loaded guns there are instead dollar signs that restricts your movement for you. Just like prison there is no sex, sexual intercourse, relationships, or even marriage as it is a luxury 'privilege' that only wealthy people can largely afford. As it is in prison where the prisoner is forced to become sexually celibate so it is the same for society's caste of untoucables. Just like prison a prisoner has no use of family or community, the prison becomes their community, much is the same for society's untouchables on the outside of those walls. Just like prison there is extreme solitary confinement, again, long lasting friendships, or regular interactions within your community requires money that only wealthy people can afford, the untouchables live in solitary confinement also that can be said to be just as equally dehumanizing. Just as a prisoner finds themselves doing prisoner labor for the upkeep of their cellblock servicing their debts within the prison walls likewise society's untouchables are forced to do a whole host of shitty low income paying jobs to afford whatever shitty dwelling that they're forced to pay rent for monthly that they constantly struggle to afford. And just as in prisons where prisoners fight amongst themselves forming various individual gangs there are also various gangs of society's untouchables fighting amongst themselves over the scraps thrown at them by society's owners.
Just as in prison where prisoners are killing themselves via suicide or by the drug contraband they smuggle inside overdosing to death so it is the same for society's untouchables. Just as in prison when prisoners die they're buried in a shitty shallow unmarked grave, so it is the same for society's untouchables.
Just as inside prison there occasionally is a prison riot outside the walls occasionally the untouchables will riot in the cities burning them down. Just as inside a prison where there is mass surveillance everywhere inside the walls, much is the same on the outside with cameras everywhere to make sure society's untouchables don't cause any trouble or a ruckus.
Just as inside a prison where the prison chaplain reads from a Bible made in China to pacify, cow, herd, and give promises of eternal heaven in death, much is the same on the outside of prison walls for the untouchables with a parish church on every street corner, a homeless missionary shelter in every locality, and a soup kitchen or food bank within every province.
The only difference between prisoners inside walls and the untouchables on the outside apparently is that the untouchables are well fed prisoners with access to porn, cellphones, video games, Netflix, internet, music, electronics, better drugs, and television it would seem. [Just enough to keep them sedated to continue their long life of misery or constant drudgery so they don't rebel.]

[I can't seem to find there being any other differences besides that.]

Another key difference is that the prisoners inside the walls know they're not free, yet a vast majority of society's lower caste of untouchables don't even realize [yet] they're not free either, but lately it would seem more and more untouchables everywhere are slowly starting to realize they're not which is very promising. What happens when all of society's untouchables living in their open air prisons uniformly come to the same conclusion? What will it mean for the future state of societies everywhere? What will the social and collective breaking point be?
I wonder....

