The period of history in which philosophers and reformers began to challenge the prison tradition with new ideas about the individual, limits of government, and rationalism was known as the:

A. Enlightenment.
B. Renaissance.
C. Civil War.
D. Reconstruction.
E. Progressive periiod.


Answer: A

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