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This article focuses on what level the prison and imprisonment deter the individuals and the society from committing crime. The effect of imprisonment as a sort of punishment and so, the effects of the prison on the prisoners is discussed. In this study, it is particularly tried to determine through “prison sub-culture” why some of the released prisoners commit crime again. From this aspect, only imprisonment does not effectively have an deterring role on the criminals. Finally, the new approaches being developed, giving more importance to the punishment policies in the society, maintaining only the persistent criminals to being sent to prison with a selective incarcaretion policy, and the rehabilitation programmes in the prison are emphasized as an alternative to the prison

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