Political imprisonment threatens the prisoner’s conviction in his past struggle

Evidence

The greatest danger for any political prisoner is that under the impact of his new situation the very reasons for his past struggle and his present plight will come to lose their validity for him. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 236

Categorization

• DEFINE: Capture as part of what isolation does to political commitment — mechanism relevant to how exclusion erodes identity.