110 Community: volume 7, nomor 2, Oktober 2021 p-ISSN: 2477-5746 e-ISSN: 2502-0544 Studi Tentang Pembentukan Struktur Sosial Narapidana di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Kelas II B Klaten Emilia Rohmawati Asyarifah 1 , Padmono Wibowo 2 , Imam Ismail Addarojad 3 1, 2 Politeknik Ilmu Pemasyarakatan 3 Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Kelas IIB Klaten emilia.asyarifah@gmail.com 1 , padmonowibowo@gmail.com 2 , imamismailadd@gmail.com 3 Abstrak Prison is a social entity in which there are citizens who are currently serving a criminal period. Even though prisoners are in the process of training in the prison and are in a limited environment, as social creatures they do not lose their ability to be able to exercise of power. As social creatures, they certainly interact with each other within the scope of activities in prison. This research tries to explore the process of forming the structures formed in Klaten prisons and how their structures are also different from the informal association networks outside the prison. The objects in this study were the assisted residents in the Klaten Class IIB Penitentiary. Data collection techniques used in this study include direct observation, interviews, and literature study. The results showed that the social structure formed in prisons, prison officers clearly occupy the highest position and position because they are representatives of the state that has legitimacy and all legal instruments of power to foster prisoners in prisons. The formation of social structures for prisoners can be said to be unique, this is because there are several factors which then influence their position and position in prison. These factors are; First, the prisoners' ability to build closeness to prison officers. Second, the economic capacity of the prisoners, the third is the expertise possessed by prisoners, and the fourth is the factor of the crimes committed by the prisoners. Key words: Prisons, Prisoners, Social Structure 1. PENDAHULUAN Lembaga pemasyarakatan merupakan satu entitas sosial yang di dalamnya terdapat warga negara yang sedang menjalani masa pidana. Proses pidana ini terjadi karena mereka adalah orang-orang yang telah melakukan tindak kejahatan yang melawan hukum negara, sehingga untuk bisa menundukkan mereka harus menggunakan institusi lembaga pemasyarakatan yang di dalamnya akan dilakukan program pembinaan. Dalam proses pembinaan ini juga narapidana kemudian kehilangan kebebasan untuk bisa melakukan banyak hal karena mereka berada dalam lingkungan yang terbatas dan selalu berada dalam pengawasan petugas pemasyarakatan. Sebagai konsekuensi dari tindakan melanggar hukum tersebut mereka dimasukkan ke dalam