Discuss some of the first correctional institutions used prior to the penitentiary

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? Some of the first correctional institutions were used during medieval period and were still in use during the 17th and 18th centuries.
? Monastic confinement were prisons established by the Church in the Middle Ages for those involved in offensive acts, such as incest and magic.
? Bridewells were houses of corrections run by local authorities to teach habits of industry to vagrants and idlers.
? Houses of Corrections were workhouses where vagrants were forced to work to achieve the purpose of discipline and punishment.

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