In line with its notions of community crime prevention it saw the way forward to be shifting the emphasis from custodial institutions to punishment in the community.

The workhouse was not just a custodial institution.

Asylums were once again turning into custodial institutions and the reputation of psychiatry in the medical world had hit an extreme low.

Moreover, the argument that a custodial institution is inevitably a university of crime depends very much on the regime there and the allocation of inmates.

It is well-known that the size if the inmate population of prisons and other custodial institutions varies enormously from one jurisdiction to another.

Disabled people were no longer to be locked away in custodial institutions without treatment or education.

The hospitals that did exist were primarily custodial institutions, strictly run by lay administrators or founders.

But custodial institutions are clearly on their way.

Born out of the great humanitarian sentiments of the nineteenth century, Rosewood deteriorated into a custodial institution.

Thus, young female offenders are more likely to be placed in protective and custodial institutions than are boys whose delinquent or criminal behaviour is similar.