Jail and Prison

By jasantos89
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    Jail and Prison

  • East Jersey Code

    during 1668-1675 any first time burglary offenders would get branded on the hand. With the letter T for thief
    Second offender would get branded on the forehead.

  • The Quaker colonies of Pennsylvania and West Jersey

    approved for murders to be punish by gallows.
    Other traditional felonies were punishable by labor.

  • Pennsylvania Legislature

    Adopted the England criminal laws, and cancel the Quaker criminal codes.

  • Walnut Street Jail

    Philadelphia
    Started as a City Jail to reduce the overcrowding people.
    There was a big lack of health issues and no rehabilitation methods were involved.
    Until, 1792 when Quakers stablish the penitentiary House
    Criminals were treated for rehabilitation

  • English Penitentiary Act

    State Prisons were introduced for the first time. Instead of killing or kicking the criminal out of the State, the offender will spent time in Prison.

  • Pennsylvania

    The Quakers believe in labor rather than humiliation. By 1786, criminals would wear a ball of chain and bright clothes to prevent them from running away.

  • Ladies Society for promoting the reformation of female prisoners

    Quaker Elizabeth Fry form the society so assist women in prison. she mention that women in prison were raped, abused, and trated as men.

  • The Auburn Silent System

    First occupied in 1821
    solitude to prisons as a form of dicipline.
    the cells were 7ft long by 3 1/2 ft wide

  • Mass Prison Era

    similar to the Auburn System.
    sielnce was mandatory but with chances to do labor
    deterrence was a big factor

  • Sing Sing (Ossining, New York)

    A maximum security prison
    the system was conducted through brutal punishments.
    Punishment was more demanding than rehabilitation

  • Eastern State Penitentiary

    Eastern State Penitentiary
    Became very popular in the European countries. A small cell 12ft by 8 ft wide. Criminals had the chance to go into an excercise yard for an hour a day. Solitude was the goal, criminals could not even face to face the chapel

  • Cherry Hill Prison in Philadelphia

    Charles Dickens from Englan visited the prison in the United States, he declared the solitary confiment to be wrong

  • Detroit House of Correction

    Zebulon Brockway created a facility for women.

  • First Correctional Congress

    Held in Cincinnati.
    Prisoners had a chance to get education
    The creation of the Decleration of Principles granting rewards for the well behave criminals

  • Indiana Reformatory

    Prison for women and girls.
    Women did not have any source of help for rehabilitation.

  • Reformatory Era

    Reformatory Era
    Based on indeterminate sentencce, main focus was to stablish rehabilitation. Which led to parole, probation, and house arrest.

  • Industrial Era

    Incarceration was growng at a rapid speed. Prisoners were turned to profitable labors. By producing good at a very afordable price, which increase the income to the States.

  • Juvenile Courts in Cook County Chicago

    Children were seperated from adults.
    Rehabilitation was the ideal methid

  • Progressive Era

    Progressive Era
    focus on the regulation of child labor and equality to women.

  • Alcatraz

    Alcatraz
    Maximum security Faility
    The main job was to make the criminals follow the rules
    Due to budget expenses the prison was closed on 1963

  • Punitive Era

    Maximum Security for criminals
    the main focus was for the criminal to be sentence for long periods of time. Retribution was the goal for the system to the public.

  • Treatment Era

    Treatment for rehabilitation was the main goal
    The purpose was for the criminal to acknowledge the mistake and seek for treatment.

  • Community-Based Era

    The creation of House arrest, Probation, Work release, and Parole. A criminal was giving the opportunity to be outside with the community than being isolated in prison.

  • Juvenile Justice and Deliquent Prevention Act

    Juvenile Justice and Deliquent Prevention Act
    Rehabilitation to deliquent.
    The removal of jail time
    More protection to juveniles

  • Warehousing Era

    The Community Based program was a good method but a lot of those criminals were caught commiting crimes again. The warehousing era demanded that criminals to be punished by mandatory minimum sentence required. That created the overcrowding of prisons.

  • Just Desserts Era

    Punishement was the main focus. An offender will be sentence to the severity of the crime. Parole or any supervison outside of prison was the least important factor. Mandatory sentence and less focused on rehabilitation.

  • women in prison

    Womenr right have assited them in many sources.
    rehabilitation, time to spent with children, drug abuse treatment, and sisterhood.