Osmanlı Devleti'nde Hapishanelerin Islah Çalışmalarına Dair Bir İnceleme: Ergani Madeni Umumi Hapishanesi (1860-1920).

Crime and punishment have a history as deep as human history. As in all societies, there were criminals in the Ottoman society as well. The perpetrators, on the other hand, were subject to different punishments. In this context, there has been an unchanging type of prison sentence in the punishments given throughout history. Since the place where the prison sentence is executed is a prison, the existence of prisons dates back to the oldest periods of history. As in the old periods of history, these places have preserved their existence in an important way in the Ottoman Empire. One of the Ottoman prisons that retained its importance was the Ergani Mine Public Prison. In this study, the developments in the location and physical structure of the Ergani Madeni Public Prison, which is the center of hard labor, from 1860 to 1920, the works carried out for the renovation of the physical structure, and the developments regarding the personnel working in the prison are discussed. In addition, the reflections of the rehabilitation works on the physical structure of the prisons on the sanjak prison were tried to be examined in the study. In this study, which covers the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives and copyrighted works were used as a source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]