. Explain what the Quakers believed about crime and punishment and how they implemented their beliefs in their practices.
What will be an ideal response?
Solitary confinement is generally attributed to the work of Quakers in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. Although solitary confinement was justified on religious grounds, its evolution was also tied to economic and fiscal forces of the time. Prison conditions in the United States were declining and fiscal considerations loomed large. The Quakers based their penology on the core idea that religion would lead to the moral redemption of offenders. Prisoners were locked in single cells, which they never left until their terms expired, they died, or they declined into mental illness. Convicts were not even allowed to work; they were to spend all their time contemplating God. Bibles were the only reading material permitted. The extreme isolation of prisoners was thought to prevent some inmates from negatively influencing others. It was viewed as the only true mode of punishment, but it was (and still is) a penal method that allows a small staff to manage a large number of mostly idle prisoners.
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