All Corrections and Institutional Life

Concepts describing the practice and experience of criminal justice confinement and supervision: the architectural and philosophical model of constant surveillance that shaped early prison design, conditional early release from a completed prison sentence, community supervision in place of or following incarceration, a criminal justice system's reliance on imprisonment at a historically or comparatively high rate, an institution that controls nearly every aspect of its members' lives, and the process by which a person adapts to and is shaped by life inside such an institution. Belongs here: any concept about the structure, scale or lived experience of confinement or supervision. Does not belong here: the philosophical justifications for punishment, grouped under Purposes and Philosophies of Punishment, or an individual's pattern of repeat offending, grouped under Measurement, Risk and Offending Patterns.