1989: The Czech Prison System at a Crossroads

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ustrcr.cz/publikace/securitas-imperii-36-1-2020/" target="_blank" >https://www.ustrcr.cz/publikace/securitas-imperii-36-1-2020/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

1989: The Czech Prison System at a Crossroads

Original language description

The Czechoslovak prison system was at a crossroads after 1989. It was clear to everyone that it would have to be humanised and modernised, and also that a system would have to be set up to ensure respect for convicts’ basic human rights. This was an elaborate task, complicated especially by the fact that a successful reform depended on many factors, from human resources to the economy of the newly established state. The paper explores three topics. The first part outlines the key trends in the prison system in the last years of the Communist Party dictatorship. After that, the authors analyse the situation in the prison system during the so‑called Velvet Revolution in 1989 and shortly afterwards. That time saw repeated riots in the prisons, the establishment of prisoner organisations as well as prison staff who were critical of the previous development of prison system, and the start of the process of ridding the prison staff of its most compromised officers. The third part describes the post‑revolution transformation of the basic operational principles of the Czechoslovak prison system, which can be summarised as depoliticisation, demilitarisation and humanisation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ17-26073Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-26073Y: Transformations of the Prison System in the Czech Lands in the Period 1965–1992. Systemic and Individual Adaptations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Securitas Imperii

ISSN

1804-1612

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

46

Pages from-to

124-169

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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