File:Pentonvilleiso19.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
prisoner
Sign in to saveAlso known as inmate, detainee, captive, prisoners, prison inmate
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.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
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
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- social status
- Subclass of
- legal status
- Image
- Prison scrubs 1.jpg
- Has use
- Convict lease
Show 9 more facts
- male form of label
- Gefaangenen
- different from
- Siccîn
- P8168
- RWF
- does not have characteristic
- freedom of movement
- female form of label
- zapornica
- topic's main category
- Category:Prisoners and detainees
- Commons category
- Prisoners
- has characteristic
- imprisonment
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/prisoner
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- English law
- History
- Psychological effects
- Special Housing Units (SHU) syndrome
- Stockholm syndrome
- Inmate culture
- Convict code
- Rights
- United States
- Types
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prisoner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.