LAW

Changes in a society demand changes in the way of maintaining social order.  The techniques of social control are also adjusted to changed situations as no system of social control works perfectly.  The functions of prisons have also changed from custodial, to coercive, to corrective. The great Mahatma Gandhi strongly said that “prisons should be changed into hospitals to give treatment to offenders, to bring them on the correct line, officer of the jail should be changed into a doctor, the offenders shall feel that officers of the jail are their friends”.   In early India conditions of prisons were harsher than animals and prisoner were treated with hatred.  There was no uniform code to give punishment.  The meaning of the punishment itself was to crush the prisoner. The jailors were normally cruel persons. But in the year of 1835 Jail Commission was constituted, and in 1838 due to the efforts of Lord McCauley First Jail Reformative Committee was constituted which rec