CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RECLUSIVE CUSTODY

Crime has always been a puzzling problem, knocking the human community from immemorial time. Thereby it becomes a myth of forming crimeless society. There are various punishments in crime like compensation, life imprisonment, death sentence, reclusive custody and many more. Punishment depends on the gravity of offence. Reclusive custody is detention in which a prisoner is detached from all human contact and isolated in a single cell. This punishment requires high gravity of offence. Confinement can`t be implemented mannerly without prisons as it were established with the motive, to restrain criminal activities of an evil doer. In modern time, prisoner`s rights concept has been changed by the criminal justice system by utterly shifting from retaliatory to corrective approach. The long list of prisoner`s right has also owned by the judiciary, are bound on all authorities to follow. Still today, Indian jails are overcrowded. The NCRB record says that the occupancy ratio is 14% more than the actual capacity of jails. By this paper, the author attempted to investigate and acknowledge the wider concept of reclusive custody by knowing its origin, background, development and limitations. Paper traces, how this confinement has an impact on the mental and physical health of prisoner and also aimed to talk about prisoners right and contrasting effect of isolative restrain. There is a discussion on the destruction of reclusive custody as punishment. The author concludes the paper, considering all key words of the research.