RESOCIALISATON OF PRISONERS – A CONCEPT OF OPEN PRISON

Nrupathunga Patel; Dr.G.S.Venumadhava

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016

RESOCIALISATON OF PRISONERS – A CONCEPT OF OPEN PRISON

Nrupathunga Patel, Dr. G. S. Venumadhava

Abstract :

Prisoners are often seen offensive by all the surroundings, crime that just happens with exceptional cases like hard core criminal, but rest of the offenders commits crime by provoked sudden actions. Without having strong motive to conduct such an unlawful act. Thus crime is considered as a disease and they kept in prison for treatment provided with proper medication like reformative measures. Open air prison is one of the reformative concept involved by criminal justice system in attempting prisoners to formulate themselves as a law abiding citizens in the society. Open prison was first started with making prisoners as labors and using them for government works, it was called as labor colony, as time immemorial it was started as the concept of reformation also.