The Big House:

a. refers to maximum security prisons.
b. made major profits through prison industries.
c. was successful because of their rehabilitative programs.
d. was the first to separate men, women, and children.
e. was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court as being cruel and unusual punishment.


Answer: a

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