Grading Stalinist Prison Camp Hq Through The Purposes Of...

Grading Stalinist Prison Camp HQ through the Purposes of Prisons through History The prisons we typically think of in modern American society are distinctly and majorly different from the Stalinist labor camp Ivan Denisovich Shukhov presides in the book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, but all prisons have four major purposes. These purposes are retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. By rating the prison camp that Shukhov resided in for 3,653 days, a greater understanding of the negative impact placed on Shukhov can be granted. Before stating how well the specific prison camp followed each of these purposes, I will first go into further detail into what each of these purposes includes in order to provide a rubric when grading the Stalinist prison camp. Firstly, retribution means punishment for crimes against society. Most prisons achieve retribution by depriving criminals of their freedom as a way of paying a debt to society for their crimes. Freedom can be deprived in a multitude of ways other than captivity, including being deprive d of some given rights. The stalic prison camp, HQ, achieves retribution by trying to achieve a totalitarian system. By limiting food intake, monitoring sleep and work schedules, and retaining all personal items HQ is attempting to control the prisoner s actions entirely. This lack of rights isn t the only way that retribution is achieved through: there are a variety of direct punishments that happen as well.