Behind Prisons Walls

Running head : Behind Prisons Walls

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Introduction

Prisons represent correction facilities in which individuals who have violated the law of the land in one way or another are physically confined and deprived of certain freedoms especially that of movement and free association . The institution of prison is conventional and forms an integral part of the judicial system of any given country incarceration or imprisonment is a penalty which is legal and is imposed by the state through its judicial arm , to persons who

have violated the laws . Historically , imprisonment was not considered as a punishment but as a way of confining criminals until such a time when the state or the governing authorities would be in a position to administer capital or corporal punishment . Biblically there were prisons in Jerusalem used for detention purposes in the Old Testament (Flynn Hurd , 1998

History purpose and types of prisons

Prisons have been in existence for very many centuries , history of imprisoning individuals started way beyond the eighteenth century . The holding of individuals before trial , although not necessarily in building or other structures built specifically as prisons may be in castles is as old as history and have been exercised for several centuries . Private jails were in existence and their history dates back in the year 1166 and their existence continued into the eighteenth century they were mainly run privately as commercial undertakings and the prisoners were expected to pay for the food and other services that they enjoyed...