Explain the significance of the Pennsylvania Prison Society for the development of corrections
What will be an ideal response?
While the new laws were considered humane, public reaction against the display of convicts on the streets of the city and the disgraceful conditions in city jails led to the formation in 1787 of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (renamed the Pennsylvania Prison Society in that same year). Members of the society were appalled by the overcrowded, unsanitary, and corrupt conditions of the Walnut Street Jail and appealed to the legislature for reform. In 1790, an act was passed that brought about sweeping reforms. The act authorized a penitentiary house with 16 cells to be built in the yard of the jail to carry out solitary confinement with labor for "hardened atrocious offenders," thus removing them from the general inmate population.
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a. True b. False
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A. a court of limited jurisdiction. B. a court of general jurisdiction. C. a circuit court. D. a court of common pleas.
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a. state-sponsored b. dictator-fueled c. concentric zone d. political
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a. incarceration b. prison c. incapacitation d. recidivism