This article examines the impact of imprisonment on citizenship. It identifies how civil, political and social rights are circumscribed with a sentence of imprisonment, and scrutinizes to what extent citizenship is limited for prisoners. Drawing on recent developments in England and Wales, it contends that citizenship has been eroded, not as a ‘collateral consequence’ of imprisonment, but rather as a determined penal policy. The boundaries of punishment have become blurred, moving from criminal justice institutions, and extending towards what is termed civil and political penality. Finally, it argues that, because citizenship in prison is inevitably framed around the differences between freedom and captivity, prisoners respond to the constraints of imprisonment through alternative ways of expressing their citizenship.

本文探讨了监禁对公民身份的影响。它确定了如何以监禁来限制公民，政治和社会权利，并详细审查了囚犯的公民身份受到了多大程度的限制。它借鉴了英格兰和威尔士的最新发展，认为公民身份已经受到侵蚀，不是作为监禁的“附带结果”，而是作为坚定的刑罚政策。惩罚的界限已经变得模糊，从刑事司法机构转移到了民事和政治刑罚。最后，它认为，由于监狱中的公民身份不可避免地围绕自由与囚禁之间的差异而定，囚犯通过表达公民身份的替代方式来应对监禁的约束。