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prisoner
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thumb|236px|Gustave Doré's image of the exercise yard at [[Newgate Prison (1872)]] A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement or captivity in a prison or physical restraint. The term usually applies to one serving a sentence in prison.
A prisoner is a person who has been deprived of their liberty against their will, either through confinement in a prison or physical restraint. The term typically refers to someone serving a sentence in prison for a crime.
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Research
37,250 papers- Psychiatry and the dying prisoner.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2017
- Space for the Prisoner's Point of View.The Hastings Center report · 2017
- Prisoner exposure to nature: Benefits for wellbeing and citizenship.Medical hypotheses · 2019
- International Journal of Prisoner Health. Editorial.International journal of prisoner health · 2013
- Prisoner knowledge about head injury is Improved by brief psychoeducation.Brain injury · 2022
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14 sectionsContents
- English law
- History
- Psychological effects
- Special Housing Units (SHU) syndrome
- Stockholm syndrome
- Inmate culture
- Convict code
- Rights
- United States
- Types
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thumb|236px|Gustave Doré's image of the exercise yard at [[Newgate Prison (1872)]] A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement or captivity in a prison or physical restraint. The term usually applies to one serving a sentence in prison.
==English law== thumb|Finland|Finnish serial killer [[Johan Adamsson, also known as "Kerpeikkari", in the 1849 lithography by Johan Knutson while he was imprisoned]] "Prisoner" is a legal term for a person who is imprisoned.