Özet:

The concept of prison is as old as human history. However, in modern terms, prisons have started to emerge in Europe with industrialization. In the Ottoman Empire, the prison, which started to emerge after the Tanzimat, was first created by the use of places such as basements or depots on the lower floors of the government mansion. These places were called “mahbes” at that time. As the concept of prison became widespread, it was started to be built in independent places and transformed into places where the criminal was rehabilitated. The prison in Soma was located under the government mansion. The Soma prison, which existed under the government mansion until the last period of the Ottoman Empire, could not turn into an independent prison and continued to exist there. Only women's prison was kept in a separated place by renting the houses of reliable people from the public. In this study, a general evaluation of the Soma prison was arisen with the findings obtained by scanning the Ottoman Archive and by organizing the transcribed documents. Again, in this study, the evaluation was carried out by analyzing the general and physical condition of Soma prison, the situation of juvenile prisoners, the place issue of the women's prison, attendance records and information about the population.

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