Social Norms Of Prisons

The social setting such as the society we all find ourselves in have had some of its members deviate from the acceptable social norms of the society. Such people who deviates from the accepted norms are often labelled as criminals. Some of these criminals are subjected to all forms of measures intended to punish or reform them. Some of these measures are community service, fines, banishment, capital punishments and the most popular and by far the accepted form of punishment is imprisonment. Imprisonment has now taking the centre stage of confining offenders or criminals all with the purpose of reforming and rehabilitating them to adhere to the accepted or prescribed norms of the society. It is therefore of no surprise that in some countries like the United States of America and Canada imprisonment is referred to us correctional institutions with the sole aim of correcting offenders towards the accepted standards of the society.
Worldwide, prisons have been adopted as a mechanism for keeping safe criminals who have violated the laws of the state. According to (Coley, 2003) a prison is an enclosed institution in which large groups of people are held against their will in confined conditions. Prison is also referred to as a total institution whereby a group of people’s rights and liberties are restricted in order …show more content…
This emphasizes that prisons are not instituted just for the goal of incarcerating convicted prisoners by inflicting severe punishments on them but rather it should serve the purpose of bringing them back to a new changed life before their release in order to fit into the