The so-called ‘aggrieved inmates’ constitute a very specifi c group of prisoners, who have been downgraded in prison hierarchy. The paper contains the up-to-date research results within a range of relations between downgraded individuals and other inmates. The paper also includes the description of personality traits of aggrieved inmates and those which are assigned to this prison cathegory The purpose of the research is to depict the multidimensional phenomenon of prison degradation which leads to humiliation of low-status individuals’ identity.