THE HARDSHIPS OF IMPRISONMENT EXPERIENCED BY LONG-TERM CONVICTS (PERPETRATORS OF MURDER)

Abstract

The aim of the article is to discuss the issue of hardships of prison isolation experienced by perpetrators of murder serving long-term custodial sentences. In the first section of the article, dealing with theory, the author describes difficult situations experienced by convicts, while also giving a brief characterisation of perpetrators of murder as a category of prisoner serving long sentences covering many years. The second section presents the findings of research conducted on a group of 64 convicted men, serving sentences for murder. Factors differentiating the hardships of imprisonment experienced by individual respondents proved to be: recidivism, the sentence currently being served, and work carried out during the convict’s stay in a correctional facility. The summary compares the findings of the research with the conclusions reached by other writers. Attention is also drawn to a few significant elements of the optimum model of the serving of sentences by long-term convicts

Keywords

• hardships of imprisonment
• long-term convict
• perpetrators of murder