History Of Prisons
In countries around the world people are being locked up and detained without a fair chance. Do to these unfair trials prisoners get mistreated,abused,murdered, and other cruel things. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or imprisonment. Detention is seen arbitrary when there is no legal basis for detention or there are grave violations of the right to a fair trial. Prison is punishment by itself, I don’t think anyone should endure the pain of not seeing their family, missing graduations, birthdays, etc.
Why do people go to jail? Some people go to jail because they got caught up in other peoples business. Also some people are in the wrong place, at the wrong time. But most people commit crimes and don't know the consequences behind them. Then once they realize their stuck with no place to go, they turn to god.
For most of history, imprisoning has not been a punishment in itself, but rather a way to confine criminals until a punishment is proposed. There were prisons used for detention in Jerusalem in Old Testament times, and the Bible details the imprisonment of Joseph in Egypt Dungeons that were used to hold prisoners. Those who were not killed or left to die there often became slaves or faced penal transportation. In other cases debtors were often thrown into debtor's prisons, until they paid enough money in exchange for a limited degree of freedom.
After many centuries of friction in prison environment ,except the the prison in ancient Greece which used the concept of “open prison”, where inmates could roam freely inside and receive help from their families. First prisoners of the modern prison system became introduced in the medieval England. Under the leadership of Henry II in the 12th century and King John in 13th century.Prisons in England started creating strict laws which told that no person can be incarcerated without fair trial. During that time the Tower of London started holding its prisoners. However, as the centuries went on, increased population, crime, and unemployment brought the situation inside English prisons to the tipping point. As it was obvious that overcrowded prisons could not hold every inmate for long before they died either from riots, hunger, and diseases. Many prisoners choose to accept military pardon, and allot of prisoners from England and France were shipped to the distant prison colonies in America (such as Devil’s Island), Africa and Australia.