Where and How
Punishment Through Time
Reformers and Big Ideas
Inside Historical Prisons
What Is the Goal?
100

This term means physical confinement in a jail or prison.

What is incarceration?

100

Whipping is an example of this punishment, which inflicts physical pain.

What is corporal punishment?

100

This thinker opposed torture and argued that punishment should be proportionate to the crime.

Who is Cesare Beccaria?

100

This prison system emphasized separate confinement and separate work.

What is the Pennsylvania system?

100

This purpose of corrections emphasizes deserved, proportionate punishment.

What is retribution?

200

This facility typically holds people awaiting trial or serving shorter sentences.

What is a jail?

200

Execution is this type of punishment.

What is capital punishment?

200

This reformer drew attention to poor sanitation, disease, and unhealthy prison conditions.

Who is John Howard?

200

This system combined group work in silence during the day with separate cells at night.

What is the Auburn system?

200

Confinement restricts opportunities to offend in the community, illustrating this purpose.

What is incapacitation?

300

This court-ordered community supervision often serves as an alternative to incarceration.

What is probation?

300

This payment compensated victims or their families and helped reduce blood feuds.

What is wergild?

300

This intellectual movement encouraged reason, clearer laws, and opposition to arbitrary cruelty.

What is the Enlightenment?

300

Under this arrangement, private employers paid to use incarcerated people as laborers.

What is convict leasing?

300

Education, job training, and treatment address needs linked to offending through this purpose.

What is rehabilitation?

400

This conditional release begins after someone has served part of a prison sentence.

What is parole?

400

This historical punishment sent convicted people to distant colonies, frequently for compulsory labor. 

What is transportation?

400

This prison design used a central inspection point so prisoners could believe they were being watched at any time.

What is the Panopticon?

400

These groups performed guarded outdoor labor while physically chained together.

What are chain gangs?

400

Punishing one person to discourage others in the wider public illustrates this type of deterrence.

What is general deterrence?

500

This structured transitional residence helps people move from incarceration back into the community.

What is a halfway house?

500

Before modern penitentiaries, people were often confined while awaiting trial or this next step, such as whipping or execution.  

What is punishment?

500

This model of corrections emphasized diagnosing and treating the problems associated with offending.

What is the medical model?

500

Opened in 1876, this reformatory emphasized education, classification, discipline, and reform.

What is Elmira Reformatory?

500

Repairing harm to victims and communities emphasizes this correctional goal.

What is restoration?

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