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The resolution draft was preceded by a report from two years of research on, inter alia, the consequences of long-term imprisonment, including psychiatric and psychological studies. It has drafted many international agreements and European conventions, including Resolution 76/2 on the Treatment of Long-term Prisoners, adopted by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 17 February 1976.

But are these gentlemen not exaggerating? Does the prisoner really stand no chance of adapting to imprisonment in a way that would leave his or her mental and physical health intact?The European Committee on Crime Problems, set up in 1957, is an organ of the Council of Europe. types of deprivation that every inmate experiences while in detention.

We could also add Gresham Sykes to this group of theorists, with his conception of the ‘pain of imprisonment’, i.e. Erving Goffman, who coined the term ‘total institution’, speaks in a similar tone, describing prison as a place where the individual self is forcibly remoulded. This notion expresses the view that as the inmate continues to serve their sentence, their mental and physical health sees a continual decline the inmate becomes more and more involved in destructive activity as part of the prison subculture, prisons as such being responsible for these negative developments. Summary/Abstract: In his 1940 book, The Prison Community, Donald Clemmer introduced the term ‘prisonisation’ into criminal science. Published by: Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN Keywords: kara długoterminowego pozbawienia wolności psychologiczne skutki pozbawienia wolności powrót do przestępstwa skutki długotrwałej izolacji więźniowie seniorzy przeludnienie kryminologia Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law On the harmful/harmless effect of long-term imprisonment on the mental and physical health of prisoners Author(s): Kamil Miszewski O (NIE)SZKODLIWOŚCI KARY DŁUGOTERMINOWEGO POZBAWIENIA WOLNOŚCI NA PSYCHIKĘ I ZDROWIE FIZYCZNE WIĘŹNIÓW

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