Prison meeting room and the process of technological control of prisoners (1979-1953)

With the writing of criminal law since the constitutional period, changes have taken place in the situation of prisoners. One of these changes concerns the right of Meeting prisoners. Traditionally, prisoners were given Meeting not as accepted and customary but as something that occasionally through bribery and friendships. But since the time of constitutionalism, the rights of individuals have been gradually recognized in society as well as in prisons. meeting is one of the most important rights of prisoners that entered the criminal law of Iran with the compilation of the first prison regulations during the constitutional period by the Swedes. The problem of this article is that explains the relationship between new technologies in the meeting room and totalitarian control of prisoners in the period after the coup d'état until the Islamic Revolution. The research results confirm that the development of new procedures in the meeting room is another symbol of a power-oriented will and the control of all prisoners's actions in the meeting room was monitored using new technologies such as recording the meeting room telephone conversation and creating a thick glass wall between the visitor and prisoner. Indeed unlike the free and face-to-face meeting of the premodern period, the meeting in the new period with technological controls is unsatisfactory.