Abstract
AN EVALUATION ON LIFE CONDITIONS IN LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE PRISONS: MALATYA PROVINCE PRISONS
In classical era of the Ottoman Empire, prisons were for elites. Exile, imprisonment in a castle, and physical punishment were some of the punishment methods that were performed for ordinary people publicly. In 19th century, the Ottoman Empire made new regulations for the prisons, as being parallel to the regulations to other institutions of the Empire. As a result of these regulations, people were imprisoned for remediation instead of physical punishments performed in public. However, economical situations of the Ottoman Empire did not provide good prison conditions for prisoners. The prisoners had to live under very bad conditions in prisons without enough food, beds, and medicines. Malatya province prison was one of those prisons which had bad conditions for prisoners. In this study, the prisons of the Ottoman Empire were investigated through Malatya Province prisons.
Keywords
Malatya, Prison, Adıyaman Life Conditions and Ottoman Empire
