Explore and discuss how Capote presents imprisonment in the novel In Cold Blood.

Capote spends a great
deal of time discussing the way in which Dick Hickock and Perry Smith live when imprisoned. They
had been paroled from prison when they committed the Clutter murders, so imprisonment has failed
to reform them. 

In "The Corner," Capote describes in intimate
detail the way in which Dick and Perry live while on death row in Kansas State Penitentiary
(they would spend five years there before being executed in 1965). While on death row, as Dick
says, there is "no rest for the wicked" (page 321). The convicts are subject to
extremes of hot and cold: "winter cold...