Psychological Effects of Custodial Sentencing

• Several psychological effects are associated with spending time in prison.
• • Stress and depression - suicide rates and self-harm are higher in prison than in the general population.
• • Institutionalisation - inability to function outside of prison having adapted to the norms and routines of prison life.
• • Prisonisation - behaviours unacceptable outside prison are encouraged via socialisation into an 'inmate code'.