Maconochie’s approach to prison administration relied on all of the following principles except:
A. cruel and vindictive punishment debases the criminal and the larger society.
B. the purpose of punishment should be reformation of the convict.
C. criminal sentences should not be viewed in terms of time served, but rather as tasks to be performed.
D. definite prison terms allow convicts to know the length of their sentence and are thus the only just way to tailor a punishment such that it maintains the primacy of human dignity.
D. definite prison terms allow convicts to know the length of their sentence and are thus the only just way to tailor a punishment such that it maintains the primacy of human dignity.
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