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Punishment In Prisons

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Definition: Punishment serves numerous social-control functions, but it is usually justified on the principles of retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation, and/or restoration.
Each country has different ways of punishment within the prison, but all countries have agreed on a set of methods of punishment which are : 1-The hard punishment in the world is to removal of a person's freedom that has been used since ancient times as a punishment.
2-'Hard Labor' punishment which describes the punishment exactly. Prisoners were often used as the main work force in mining and quarrying, building roads or labouring on the docks. Criminals could be sentenced for just a few days, weeks or even years. Prisoners were also set to hard labour within the prisons themselves; they use this type of punishment for several reasons. First, it …show more content…

“Inmates ever assigned to solitary confinement were 3.2 times as likely to commit an act of self-harm per 1,000 days at some time during their incarceration as those never assigned to solitary. These inmates assigned to solitary were 2.1 times as likely to commit acts of self-harm during the days that they were actually in solitary confinement and 6.6 times as likely to commit acts of self-harm during the days that they were not in solitary confinement, relative to inmates never assigned to solitary confinement.”
2-After controlling for length of jail stay, serious mental illness, age and race, the researchers determined that prisoners “punished by solitary confinement were approximately 6.9 times as likely to commit acts of self-harm.”
3-“In 1,303 of these incarcerations there were 2,182 acts of self-harm; in 89 incarcerations there were 103 acts of potentially fatal self-harm. The most common methods of self-harm were laceration (34 percent), ligature (28 percent), swallowing a foreign body (15 percent), and overdose (14

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