Hunger Strike in Modern Prisons (1925-1941)

Prison is one of the oldest institutions in human society that can be used to sentence criminals. This punishment was used less and more during the pre-modern era in which physical punishment was used. by breakdown in social constructions including intellectual and physical construction those punishments also changed in prison. Prisoners are entitled to rights that even the first Pahlavi dictatorship could not ignore all of them. In this paper the development and continuity of a phenomenon as ‘hunger strike’in prison has been investigated by using the theory of Anthony Giddens: ‘structuration’.