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

1. One of the oldest American prisons was a copper mine.
2. The first jail built in America was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1790.
3. Rotary jails were like squirrel cages segmented into small, “pie-shaped cells” that the sheriff could spin at will.
4. The Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also served as a mine.
5. Debtors’ prisons were outlawed in America after the Revolutionary War.


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

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