Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Progressive period was the era that spelled out major changes in correctional reform and gave rise to such great thinkers as Cesare Beccaria.
2. John Howard believed that English gaols treated inmates inhumanely and needed to be reformed.
3. William Penn is credited with creating the panopticon, which was the first prison ever to be constructed.
4. William Penn proposed the Great Law, which deemphasized the use of corporal punishment and capital punishment for all crimes, but the most serious.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True

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