Prisoners are those who have offended the state (and usually some third party) in some punishable way (and been caught).
Within the Western Art world, we no longer (necessarily) consider the art we produce to be "good" for its beauty, composition, style, or form, but based on who it offends and how:
Art that is offensive for the sake of being offensive is not what I would call "good" art.
But art that is honest, art that raises important societal questions offends society in a way that aims to move it forward.
I find artists and criminals share this connection: both groups, if we can separate them, offend us: prisoners through negative action (rape, murder, theft) while artists (for the most part) through a more positive medium.
There are a lot of parenthetical comments and holes in this idea, yeah, but what's absolute or politically correct these days?
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