In Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange (1971), a violent criminal undergoes aversion therapy while incarcerated, being forced to watch violent acts such as the ones he had himself committed. In what type of place is he being held?

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A total institution is a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons, military barracks, and asylums are examples. In "A Clockwork Orange," the protagonist is held in a prison, which fits the definition of a total institution.

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