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

1. The state of Ohio shocked Beaumont and Tocqueville by the barbarous state of its
prisons compared to its humanitarian penal code.
2. Eastern Pennsylvania Prison was the largest building in America in the 1820s.
3. Walnut Street Jail was originally used to house violent offenders.
4. Dr. Benjamin Rush led the reform efforts of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating
the Miseries of Public Prisons.
5. Contamination and indolence were the two major faults of Walnut Street Jail.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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