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Home for me refers to where i live and where i am comfortable , a sense of comfort and belonging , it is often considered dwelling or residence such as house ,apartment or any living space ,also home is also a space of personal identity

Would you consider an institution your home , for me any place that feels like home is about connection , such as safety acceptance and comfortability , so if it completes those tasks then it is my home and residence

Often institutions only position themselves as homes by creating environments that evoke feelings of safety , belonging and care , for an example schools and hospitals

Confined individuals perceive institutions as homes depends on the environment ,relationships and there personal experiences

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Reflection

The idea of home is a permanently place where one lives, that is how it is typically defined. Home to me is a place that can be associated with positive memories and personalized to you. (Lanoix p.g. 46) I would not consider an institution to be my home, and Lanoix puts it in a good way with the two-home syndrome. Where one's “home” is never home when they leave the place, they consider their home to be put into a place that is not home. (Lanoix, p.g. 45) How I understood this, was that it like there is a middle space between two homes. One that is your real home that you truly love and know, then one that you are just staying there and just exist. I do not think I could ever consider an institution to be home if was to ever be put into one. Along with home being associated to positive emotions and memories, there is also privacy. While a second home like an institution can be a “homelike” environment, it will have the institutional structure/schedule and a lack of privacy. (Lanoix, p.g. 45)

Critical Analysis

“Total” institutions try to make themselves seem “home-like” by changing the interior appearance, especially in nursing homes. Changed like adding televisions or sitting at simple table are small changed made to anchor everyday life from a home. (Lanoix, p.g. 47). With the emphasis on pleasant surroundings tend to erase one of the negative connections of moving into a long-term care facility. (Lanoix p.g. 47) However, because the institution structure is still there despite trying to change the physical environment. Centers are typically regulated by a clock and schedules. (Lanoix p.g. 47) Another thing I that, the care that is one in these institutions are done by strangers could also make the experience les home like. Workers must remain professional and detected from their patients which causes a boundary, that distance just continues the not-home like environment. (Lanoix, p.g. 49) Due to how institutions are set up, it does not allow for a strong home-like environment.

However, with COVID-19 a lot of changed had occurred with the pandemic and problems had raised. Every institution had to react differently, like nursing homes often had to displace people due to voluntarily treating COVID-19 patients. Ruby Hamilton, a lady who was in her 90s and need full time care was someone who had to be transferred to another nursing facility due to the original place was receiving Covid patients. (Jaffe, p.g. 1-2) There were also instances where a nursing home had closed for emergency repairs, just to become a facility for only COVID-19 patients, which left other residents having to be displaced. (Jaffe, p.g. 5) On another hand, in nursing homes almost a third of Covid-19 related deaths. (Nursing Home Crisis). This is due to short-term patients like Covid patients that are paid for by Medicare brings in up to 4x more money than long-term patients. (Jaffe p.g. 5) According to the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention roughly 70% of nursing homes are for-profit. (Nursing Home Crisis). However, with prisons it had opened up different issues that were not brought into light until Covid. Decades of large-scale neglect over the hidden conditions and the willful ignorance on the tough on crime policies that have led to overcrowding and other issues, made prisons a hot bed for Covid. (Law, p.g. 9) With this, states like Ohio had reported that 78% of inmates tested positive for Covid. (Matthews, p.g. 2). However, all theses different institutions are very similar in simple ways, for one things people are confined to facilities don’t think much about. (Matthews, p.g.3). I think that the government, institutions, and stakeholders could have all reacted differently. For example, using these facilities to increase profit by moving residents, instead of the original purpose, just to make some extra money. The government could have made it to where there was not a change in profit by who/what is being cared for because the institutions and stakeholders are going to at once change their policies just for the money. Which is not an ethical thing to do, but it happens.

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Week Four Padlet Response by Cristian Martinez

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Week Four Padlet Response by Cristian Martinez

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Reflection/Opinion Prompt:

Discuss the idea of home—how is it defined? What does it mean to you? Would you consider an institution your home if you one day resided in one? Why or why not?

The idea of a home is an environment that is worth more than a sense of property. Having a home means being able to go through daily life and being around society even if dealing with an injury or elderly age. To most in society being non-disabled also means that you should also have a job and be willing to do competent aims (drive, work, own a home) to seem normal in societies standards and having a home. However, if I had been in a home as a disabled person then I would not agree with the standards of an institution also being known as a home. For example, Lanoix elaborates on this environment of a particular institution after suffering from an accident with her husband. She describes it as “They encouraged me to think of my husband as finding a place where he would be met, and that I could be relieved of any worry or burden of taking care for him” (Lanoix, 2017). Furthermore, Dylan Matthews also give us some statistical facts about nursing homes during Covid-19. He claims that 1 in 10 nursing homes in the United States reported Covid-19 resulting in 27% of deaths during this time (Matthew’s, 2020). Regardless of how disabled a person may or may not be, there should be no reason we allow people to turn into a liability by simply neglecting care upon another person if needed. It is too risky especially during a time like this.

Critical Analysis Prompt:

First, write about how total institutions position themselves as “homes” or try to make themselves “home-like”. Do confined people experience them as homes? Why or why not? Then, examine how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the problems within institutions.  What could institutions, the government, and other stakeholders have done differently?

Total institutions have never proved themselves as homes, especially if that person was disabled or incarcerated. For example, Lanoix also elaborates her side of dealing with a rehabilitation institution after dealing with an accident. She describes the experience by saying “The rehabilitation centre was not meant to be homelike environment; it was deliberate attempt to simulate home in order to prepare patients for their return to their original abodes” (Lanoix, 2017). Furthermore, Jaffe claims before Covid-19 Federal law allows nursing home residents to receive up to a 30-day notice before involuntary transfer, however during Covid-19 the government has waived that right due to these facilities in more use for Covid-19 patients and got more profit and demand for the ill rather than all who needed care (Jaffe I., 2020). However, J. Clark Kelso gives us a eye view while overseeing prisons in California and elaborating on Mary Fishes experience. He reports saying “The virus was deadly, particularly for elderly people he explained. At home, he wasn’t letting his mother leave the house except to take walks in their backyard, and even those were brief. And inside Mabel Bassett, he cautioned, prison officials were using the SHU to quarantine women who had recently arrived from county jails” (J. Clark Kelso, 2024). This shows that incarceration not only showed more care for both the elderly but also the general population; this also can the difficulty that most elderly or disabled people have experienced if they did not have Covid-19. Even though these people may not have a extreme life or death illness does not mean we should neglect their needs or force them out of the environment they. Have already been in for a certain period of time.

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Reflection/Opinion

To me, home is more than just a place where you live. It’s where you feel safe, comfortable, and cared for. Home means belonging, being around people you trust, and having some control over your life. If I ever had to live in an institution, I don’t think I would see it as my true home. Even if the building tried to look like one, it wouldn’t feel the same because the freedom and closeness of family would be missing.

Critical Analysis

Institutions often call themselves “homes” or try to make the environment feel “home-like” by adding decorations, shared spaces, or family-style meals. But for many people who live there, it doesn’t feel like home because they don’t have the same freedom or privacy. Rules, schedules, and lack of control can make it feel more like a facility than a true home.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the problems inside institutions became very clear. Many residents were isolated from their families, and infections spread quickly because so many people lived close together. This showed that institutions were not fully prepared to protect the people inside.

The government, institutions, and other stakeholders could have done more, like providing better safety equipment, testing, and staff support. They also could have found safer ways for residents to connect with their families instead of cutting them off completely.

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Reflection/Opinion Prompt:

Home is defined by Monique Lanoi as, “…home is about being close to love ones; it is about sharing space where one feels relaxed with close others” (p. 45). A comfortable home to me involves comfort, stability, privacy, and family. If I ever resided in a institution or was incarcerated, I would never consider an institution my home, just a tempory residence. The environment by design is hostile and “homelike” but can never be home because you can never be around your family members.. Lanoi describes how she dislikes care facilities and states, “this place appears temporary in a permanent way; ive heard it called, “gods waiting room”” (p. 40). Another reason I believe an institution can never be seen as a home to me is because there is no privacy and youre always being watched or observed over.

Analysis Prompt:

Total institutions, more prevalently nursing homes, try to make themselves seem more “home-like”. They are places where people are intended to spend the rest of their lives, so the institutions want to make it feel as close to home as it can get. They color the walls differently, have the nurses and staff treat the patients differently than “normal people”, and the general architecture and design of the facilities differ when they want them to be more “home-like”. However, it can never feel like home as it lacks the presence of family and loved ones, and as much as people want them to be permanent, some people still see nursing homes as temporary institutions until someone dies. People confined in these institutions do not view these facilities as homes. They miss their loved ones, and thus these places can never feel like homes. During COVID-19, prisons became isolated to which Dylan Matthews states to his readers, “they are institutiotns optomised for neglect” (p. 3). This revealed that they would shove people into institutions because they did not want to deal with them and “forget” that they had shoved them in there so that they were out of the way. This caused many issues when covid happened as many people didnt even think about anyone but themselves during this time. Institutions, the government, and other stakeholders could have according to Matthews, “the us can shrink its prisons…create housing laws, social supports, and other structures that enable older people to live with their families whenever possible” (p. 5).

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The idea of home to me is somewhere that you are comfortable, that has your belongings, but most of all somewhere that your loved ones are and the countless memories that you have made. Home is somewhere so special in my heart that is filled with all my loved ones and the countless memories and laughs that we have shared throughout the years. When I think of home, I think of my house back in Long Beach, California with my mom, my brother, and our two cats. A small one story house, with a pool, and all the necessities. Personally, I could never truly consider an institution my home even if I resided in one, one day. I feel that you can make somewhere your home but under those circumstances, I feel that is a really hard task. In an institution I think of more of a nursing home or hospice care where you permanently reside in but will not be there forever as your time will be up eventually. ”It seems that, in this place,”a room of ones own” is granted only on a temporary basis. In any case the rooms are rather interchangeable, and they do not have much wall space to accommodate personalization” (Lanoix, Pg 1). This being said, it seems that there is no room for normalcy or an opportunity to make a room your own. I do not think an institution can quite ever live up to the standards of a home when compared to a loving household with your loved ones.

Total institutions will try to position themeselves as homes by remodeling or decorating their faculties as more ‘home’ like or inviting. ”The rooms were painted and some of the offices were changed into larger living rooms with television sets and communal tables. The effort was commendable and seemed to make some residents and family members happy” (Lanoix, Pg 8). There have been a couple of cases were residents in an institution have not felt like it is a home. For example, in “Not Home: The Struggle to Get Kids Out of Institutions and into Real Families”, Matthew’s situation was very much heartbreaking. Matthew had wanted to get out of an institution and live with his friends family. He did not feel as if he was really cared for and in a sense it did not feel like home compared to being at his friends house.

According to this source it states, ”Nationwide, deaths connected to nursing facilities account for at least a third of COVID-19 related deaths” (Miles & Yoshizaki-Gibbons, 2020). This means that there are internal problems that are happening within these institutions and it makes you wonder if they are following COVID-19 procedures. Another issue that was happening within institutions is that they would kick out residents to replace with positive COVID-19 patients since they brought in more money. According to a source,”The suddenly in March, Oliver recieved a phone call saying that Westpark would be receiving corona-virus positive patients and therefore her mother and other residents would be transferred to another facility in the same chain” (Jaffe, 2020). What they could have done differently is make facilities for COVID-19 positive patients instead of kicking out nursing home residents. The government could have also funded for more spaces to be opened instead of taking spaces from individuals that needed care.

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Total institutions like prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and nursing homes often try to make themselves feel “home-like” by providing routines, meals, and social activities. The goal is to create a sense of comfort and normalcy. However, most residents don’t actually feel at home. Strict rules, constant surveillance, and lack of privacy take away control over daily life, leaving many feeling isolated, stressed, or disconnected from their identity.

The COVID-19 pandemic made these issues even worse. Overcrowded spaces, limited testing, and shortages of PPE increased risks of infection, while lockdowns and restricted visitation worsened mental health of families trying to keep it together. Marginalized populations were affected the most due to there being limited spaces for elderly people to go after getting kicked out out of homes they considered their home.

Institutions could have improved safety and well-being by reducing overcrowding, offering mental health support, and enforcing stricter infection control. The government could have provided more resources and alternatives to incarceration such as utilizing abandoned buildings to make safe and comfortable, living, all while community organizations could have helped residents stay connected and advocated for their rights. The pandemic highlighted that without meaningful reform, these “homes” can quickly become unsafe and isolating environments.

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According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the word “home” means a place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. The second meaning is an institution for people for people needing professional care and supervision. To me who means a place where I feel the most loved, comfortable, and needed. A home can mean many things to a lot of people, but after moving from New Jersey to Ohio and still being able to visit New Jersey when needed, found in the last two years that Ohio has provided me with the comfortability and wholeness that I needed. I didn’t consider New Jersey my home anymore because I outgrown the people and places I’ve been.

If I ever had to be placed in an institution one day and had to call it by home, I would not feel like I am human because I don’t have the family, love, and support that we need to feel like a whole person. It’s nice to be around other people and your older age, but there is nothing like someone who you raised helping you out the same way that you helped them. I believe that if I was placed in a home that no one did not want to take care of me and didn’t see a reason for me to be around. That is not what I envisioned for myself.

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What is home? To me personally, home is not and never has been any specific building or house, home is the place where you feel the safest, most comfortable, loved, and you do not have to worry about faking anything. Home for me has always been where my family and pets are. From what the readings and videos have said, it seems like moving into a long term facility can blur the idea of “home”. Many people are displaced once they are in long term care as their personal routine and control is nearly gone. (Lanoix)

To me personally, I would not consider an institution home. First because of my definition, I do not believe that my entire family and pets would be in the same institute as me at the same time unless there were some crazy circumstances. Second, I do not think I would ever feel comfortable enough, free enough and all that other stuff. I would hate to live in a place where I was constantly being monitored and checked on. I feel like the video Not Home can show that too. As soon as Michael was placed in the nursing home and given a speaking aid, he was saying he wanted out of there. When Michael was able to get all of his needs met, such as the right aids and support, Michael was able to leave the nursing home and go live with his friends and family!

It seems like institutions will try to make themselves more homey by furnishing and decorations and letting residents have certain personal items and such, however those facilities will just never ever have that “home” feel. These institutions often enforce strict rules, routines, and limit one's freedom and control (Lanoix). I do not think I read a single thing where someone genuinely called their institution “home”. The article COVID-19 Demonstrates Need for Expanded Home and Community Based Services says that in Illinois, over 4000 residents and staff in these nursing homes passed away from COVID-19. Nursing homes were often overcrowded and understaffed and their main priority was not really the residents at the end of the day, it was a profit.

These institutions definitely could have gone about planning better and using looser policies that can better cater to each resident. I think that these institutions need to give residents more control, access to care, regardless of who they are getting it from, and the correct aids and supports, and whatever else the residents need to thrive and feel more at home (COVID-19 HCBS; Nursing Home Residence Moved Out).

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The definition of home is unique to everyone. Lanoix explains, “One can try to make the second homelike environment somewhat pleasant, but it always has to be negotiated through institutional structures and lack of privacy. So for some time one may be in a liminal space: never at home in any of the two homes.” (Lanoix, 45). She explains that her definition of home is where you have your loved ones, have privacy, and have independence. I agree with her definition of home. Home for me is where my family and loved ones resides. I do believe you can have multiple homes. For example, if you move out of state, that place can be a new home. But, where your parents and where you originally came from can also be your home. Along with that, my definition of home includes somewhere you have independence. In the sense that you have control over your lifestyle. I would not consider an institution my home if one day I reside in one. I won’t because have control over my lifestyle. I won’t have control of when I eat, how I decorate, and what activities I do. Along with that, my loved ones won’ reside with me. They might visit on holidays and other days, but I wouldn’t be interacting with them everyday.

Institutions try to make themselves home-like in many ways. “The rooms were painted and some of the offices were changed into larger living rooms with television sets and communal tables.” (Lanoix, 46). Institutions have changed their interiors, so they appear more home-like. It’s an important first step to make the residents more comfortable, but they have not changed anything else. Confined people don’t experience institutions as homes. “Furthermore, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 70% of nursing homes are for-profit. These facilities are more likely than nonprofits to be understaffed, overcrowded, and to invest fewer resources in caring for residents.” (Miles & Yoshizaki-Gibbons) People in for-profit institutions are often neglected and their needs are not met. These people can’t call a place a home if they are degraded. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many of these problems were revealed to the public. Healthcare systems became overwhelmed with Covid-19 very quickly. “In that prison, up to fourteen women share a single cell, sleeping in bunk beds less than three feet apart. In early December 2020, Sarah and six of her roommates tested positive.” (Law, 7). Institutions, like prisons and jails, were overcrowded and caused COVID to spread extremely quickly. According to Matthews, in 2020 Ohio carceral facilities had 78 percent of inmates test positive for COVID-19. Institutions, the government, and stakeholders could have done a lot differently. Governments should have responded faster to the crisis of the pandemic. Healthcare systems should have received more funding for caring for the patients. Institutions also needed more workers and medical care

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1.)     Home is defined by Oxford Dictionary as “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household”, however, it is also defined as “an institution for people needing professional care or supervision”. However, I feel home goes far deeper than just a physical place which is why these two definitions are so broadly different from one another. A residential home could never be a home because it lacks any sort of emotional connection. Like Cheryl Perry says in the Video “Not Home: The Struggle to get kids out of institutions and into real families”, “The only type of human touch that he got was from staff”. A staff isn’t a family, and an institution isn’t a home. Home is where you feel safe and loved and thought of.  There’s no feeling like being at home. Home, as cheesy at it is, is where the heart is. When I am home, I feel like I am safe and there are people around me I can rely upon. Home to me is the house I live in with my family, but it’s also the feeling I get when I am surrounded by close friends and my boyfriend. I feel loved. I feel cared for. That’s what home is: love. I would never consider an institution as a home for me let alone anyone else, and I sure hope that I never will end up in one. “The atmosphere is one of instability amid unchanged: there is the recognized fragility of being, yet nothing is done to support it or even grant it dignity.” (Home Interrupted, 40). Homes aren’t places where you should feel scared or there should be a scary instability about it. Homes are supposed to be a safe place, not a space where you feel discomfort and fear and uncertainty.

2.)     Total institutions position themselves as home, so people feel better about leaving their loved ones in them. If they look more like homes it’ll be easier to sell people on them. After all, you want the best for your loved ones, so if they look like the best option, they seem like the best option. However, it isn’t until these people are forced to live in them, that they see that they aren’t home like at all. They’re the opposite of home. “Some of them are so confused and depressed, crying and roaming the halls,”(Nursing Home Residents Moved Out To Make For COVID-19 Patients) says one woman, who specifically asked to not have her name be mentioned because she feared that her new nursing home would retaliate against her. Obviously if you are fearing mistreatment for simply speaking the truth, it isn’t a home. COVID-19 brought to light many issues in both prisons and nursing homes, let alone how many issues resided in our country at the time. The biggest issue COVID-19 brought up was overcrowding. It was nearly impossible to not catch the disease while having to live in close proximity every day. “At Mabel Bassett, women remained confined to their cells or, if they were unlucky to be in a dormitory, on their beds.” (Corridors of Contagion, 4). As you can see given that example, it was impossible for the women to walk freely without being confined solely to their rooms. However, nursing homes also felt the brunt of the pandemic. COVID-19 patients needed places to be treated and so what did they do, moved these people into nursing homes, kicking its current residents out. “My Concern was there would be those in the industry who saw an opportunity to trade low-paying Medicaid residents for high-paying COVID patients, says Dr. Michael Wasserman (Nursing Home Residents Moved Out To Make For COVID-19 Patients). This was sadly a reality as some couldn’t cut the move like Ruby Hamilton, who sadly succumbed to transfer trauma. “Nursing home patients are victims not just of density but of a broader societal disregard toward older people and those with disabilities.” (America’s Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures, 5). What could have been done differently was to limit the mass crowding or even institute more measure to keep these places and people safe. It wasn’t just nursing homes it was prisons. It was these hot spots that faced extreme issues during Covid-19. Instead, we let these people face trauma after trauma, and also get sick. “The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that in the 23 states for which data exists, 27 percent of deaths from Covid-19 have occurred in nursing homes. In several states, like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, most deaths have occurred in nursing homes.” (America’s Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures,2). We let these people die because we hide them in these places because they are the “undesirables of society”. Instead we should’ve had more nurses and healthcare workers in these places helping, and also designate not already populated buildings as home for those with covid.

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Arguably one of the best feelings in the world most people would agree with is coming home from a long day of hard work. Or relaxing at home after a tough week and finally having a chance to sit in your favorite chair, or on your favorite spot on the couch. For most people in the world, this is one of the best experiences. But what if your home isn’t really your home? What if your “home” becomes more of a living space and you become nothing more than a “resident” to be taken care of. Most people would say that sounds nothing like home and they would not consider that environment to be home. This is what it is like for many living in institutions today. In Home Interrupted by Monique Lanoix, a direct quote is given from an institution worker, “We take good care of our residents.” In many institutional care facilities, this is the common interpretation of those living in said institutions. They are nothing more than residents, most are considered only temporary residents. To me, home is the place where you can be at peace. Where you can be happy and not need to be worried about most things. Home is where you are supposed to be happy. If I were one day to reside in an institution, the only way I would most likely consider it home is if I had some semblance of that feeling. And for many living in institutionalized care, this is sadly not the case. Often the bare minimum isn’t even achieved.

As most institutional care facilities are for-profit, they have to “sell themselves” to potential clients. That whole concept just sounds wrong but alas it is the way things are. In an attempt to make themselves more appealing, institutions will often portray themselves as “home-like” to potential residents and their families. In the reading by Monique Lanoix, the physical element of the institutions was altered to provide a “homelikeness” to the residents. Despite the appearance potentially feeling “homelike” to residents, Lanoix also states that the manner in which the workers interact with the residents is not changed by the desire to appear more like a home. Despite the efforts of the institutions to appear as if they are a new home for their residents, this is often not the feeling the residents have about their living arrangements and care. Lanoix describes the rooms as being small and there being no real “permanent” rooms as residents are constantly moved. Lanoix also describes how there is often another resident in a room so it seems as though in some institutions, residents don’t even have their own rooms. Residents are also only permitted to see visitors at certain times. To me it seems like the institutions are not a place that seems like permanent residence.

During the covid-19 pandemic, many of the already somewhat obvious problems with institutions were exposed and many more hidden problems were also exposed. Problems like the extremely cramped conditions in prisons and the sheer lack of resources for prisoners were revealed. Despite this, very little if nothing was done to correct any deficiencies. In How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, it is revealed that thirty of the top fifty outbreaks including the largest four were in prisons and jails. Instead of taking inspiration from other countries and releasing various prisoners to ease the strain on the sheer amount of prisoners inside the walls, the U.S. took no inspiration and released no one. It is also detailed that from the start of the pandemic, public health and medical officials were warned that incarcerated people were extremely vulnerable to covid and its most severe complications. Despite this, nothing was done. If something like this were to happen again, I would hope we would have learned from our mistakes and made necessary changes to save lives.

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A home is defined as somewhere you lay your head and eat food and shower. A home to me is somewhere you sleep, eat, shower, and want to be there everyday. I would not consider an institution my home if one day I resided in one. I would not consider an institution my home because it is not my original home. I was put there because people think I cannot take care of myself or I'm living on a school campus which even then is not my home. Even Inmates have the choice on what to call home and what not to call home if they are going home eventually. The elderly or disabled still have their home that they had before moving into an institutionalization and depending on their condition, could be back at home but in some cases that will be their permanent home. I think that it's all about your situation, if coming to your original home is an option and it is in the future then you can say you aren't home, but if you are going to be in that institution the remainder of your life then that is your but I would call it a temporary home because to me, nothing is home other than my original home.

Institutions try to make themselves home like by not showing everyone the everyday things that go on in those institutions. At first it may not be that bad but the longer you are there the more bad stuff you going within the institutions.For example, during covid a group of prisoners sued for access to soap, cleaning supplies, and toilet paper amid the pandemic (Dylan Matthews Americas covid 19 hotspots ). This incident put a light on how prisoners were being treated while they're incarcerated.What they could've done differently is give them soap and all the cleaning supplies that they needed in order to reduce the amount people getting covid within the institutions.

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Reflection/Opinion Prompt:

Discuss the idea of home—how is it defined? What does it mean to you? Would you consider an institution your home if you one day resided in one? Why or why not?

Critical Analysis Prompt:

First, write about how total institutions position themselves as “homes” or try to make themselves “home-like”. Do confined people experience them as homes? Why or why not?

Then, examine how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the problems within institutions.  What could institutions, the government, and other stakeholders have done differently?