Bausmės vykdymas Lietuvos kalėjimuose (1)

The criminal law of feudal Lithuania was prevailed by compensatory punishments, the aim of which was to satisfy the victim or his/her relatives in case the victim was murdered. Even the capital punishment inflicted by the court was not executed in case the convicted came to an agreement with the victim or satisfied him/her in some other way. Later these punishments were transformed into public punishments, which were based upon perpetrator's responsibility not against victim but the society and the state as well. Lithuanian Statutes I, II and III did not apply to all citizens of the country. Each group of them additionally had their own law: the clergy - the Canon law or the corresponding law of other confessions; town-dwellers - Magdeburg law; Jews - laws of Talmud; peasants - customary law. Laws did not regulate in detail the execution of punishment of imprisonment; the problems which were bound up with it were actually solved by the administration of prison. There were state and private prisons and prisons of the church. After the 3rd division of Rzeczpospolita (1795) the Lithuanian land on the left bank of the Nemunas river was received by Prussia while that on the right bank by Russia. The laws of those countries apart from everything regulated the execution of punishments in the Lithuanian prisons.