| Summary: | The aim of the article is to discuss the issue of hardships of prison isolation
experienced by perpetrators of murder serving long-term custodial sentences.
In the first section of the article, dealing with theory, the author describes
difficult situations experienced by convicts, while also giving a brief characterisation of perpetrators of murder as a category of prisoner serving long sentences
covering many years.
The second section presents the findings of research conducted on a group
of 64 convicted men, serving sentences for murder. Factors differentiating
the hardships of imprisonment experienced by individual respondents proved
to be: recidivism, the sentence currently being served, and work carried out
during the convict’s stay in a correctional facility.
The summary compares the findings of the research with the conclusions
reached by other writers. Attention is also drawn to a few significant elements
of the optimum model of the serving of sentences by long-term convicts
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