Incarceration

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail - typically as punishment for a crime. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within an larger system of justice. Incarceration serves two essential purposes with regard to criminals: to punish criminals for committing crimes, to isolate criminals to prevent them from committing more crimes.