Jails Name Institutional Affiliation Jails Jails are places where convicted criminals are locked. An imprisonment sentence involves a denial of the liberty rights of an individual. It, therefore, does not entail a limitation of the other fundamental human rights except for those that are indeed restricted by the fact of being a detainee. Jails have in the past been regarded as inadequate institutions due to the difficulties prisoners went through while in those institutions. The failure to provide sufficient medical attention and care to prisoners made jails to be regarded as weak institutions. Medical