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@article{184563,
        author = {Geetanjali Das Saikia and Dr. Pritirupa Saikia},
        title = {PRISON SYSTEM IN INDIA, IN ANCIENT TIMES AND IN MODERN PERIOD- A CRITICAL OVERVIEW},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {1903-1908},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184563},
        abstract = {Prison in its inception was an institutional part of criminology and penology but with the development of humanitarian movement it is now looked into as reformative and correctional institution. Earlier prison has no purpose other than to board offenders until trial starts and accommodates prisoner for the purpose of sentence. The article is an analysis of prison system in India, its historical evolution how it originates and develops through the passage of time. In Vedic Period prisons were used to keep the evildoer separated. Prior to that when there was summary punishment on offenders by the whip, mutilation, or death there was no need of prison, but later on jails or local prisons gradually grown up as places for detaining people waiting for trials, debtors or awaiting punishments as shipping, pillory the principles of stocks and execution. Later the humanitarian enlightenment brought new influence on the prison system. The researcher here examines how the prison system developed, prison inmates and looking into the life of the prisoners evolve with time along with the  awareness to their inalienable rights as a human being. Researcher examines the journey of prison system from a coercive brutal demoralizing, dungeon, pit of hell where criminals were kept for the sake of punishment, discipline, coercion, with the deterrence and retributive aspect of punishment,  to achieve as a place of reform and rehabilitation by treating prisoners as human being and correcting them by wiping out the criminality of mind and rebuild and re-orient the personality of the offender, to re-introduced them to the society as a reformed person.},
        keywords = {Prison, Punishment, Rehabilitation, Retributive, Humanities, Reorientation, Rehabilitation.},
        month = {September},
        }