ABSTRACT

This paper is an attempt to consolidate the view that prisons in the modern Era are supposed to rehabilitate the prisoners. It has been shown in the light of the literature study that although imprisonment has witnessed many phases ranging from purely custodial functions and punitive functions to the recently emerged rehabilitative functions, throughout human history. However, it is evident that as a whole, prison’s evolution has been from the more exploitative to the less exploitative, from the brutal to the humane, from the uncivilized to the civilized and from the punishment based practices to the rehabilitation and reintegration based approaches and practices. If history is any guide, then in today’s Enlightened Age, it is direly needed and recommended that prisoners, no matter, what crime they have committed, are to be reformed to the core through various interventions so that they may become the law abiding, and contributing members of society once they leave the restricted world of prison and enter into the free world. Keywords; Prison, Imprisonment, Rehabilitation/Reintegration, Evolution, History

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2019/8.8.4780