But how did this affect the lives of individual inmates inside prisons and penitentiaries?
The forming of such identity is encouraged by means of new institutional practices ranging from public education and the professions to the police and penitentiary.
Its editors have been at the forefront of research on the archive of the penitentiary, which became generally available for research only in 1983.
One penitentiary inmate complained in 1921 that he had not had a bath for over a year.
Residents of care-institutions, penitentiaries, homes for the elderly, and holiday homes were excluded.
This new consideration of space had a profound influence on areas as diverse as urban development and penitentiary systems.
Ceremonies featured groundbreaking for a new penitentiary, the opening of a modern asylum for the insane, and the celebration of new schools and educational congresses.
The earliest series of its records begins in the fifteenth century and consists of registers of petitions for these favours heard and approved by officials of the penitentiary.