CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness,
unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.�
-Angela Davis
1.1 Introduction A building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial. (source: oxford) An institution for the confinement of persons who have been remanded (held) in custody by a judicial authority or who have been deprived of their liberty following conviction for a crime. (source: Britannica).
Figure 1 Prison
Most societies that today have adopted Criminal Law as an instrument for regulating the penal system in an egalitarian manner, regardless of the fact that they have adopted and consolidated the principles of re-education and social re-insertion of the detainees 1 after serving their sentence, 8
