Jail History
True or False:
Jails originally came from France.
False
When was the Penitentiary Act purposed?
1779
True or False:
Jails can hold you for your protection.
true
True or False:
Jails can hold people waiting for trail, sentencing, or other court actions.
true
Early U.S. jails used them for housing those awaiting ____.
trial
True or False:
The Penitentiary Act allowed for systematic inspections.
True or False:
Jails may temporarily hold juveniles and people waiting for mental-health services.
Some inmates serve short sentences, usually less than ______.
one year
Where did jails originate from?
England
Who wrote the Penitentiary Act?
John Howard
They utilized large cells to hold many inmates in one ____.
room
Full-service jails provide _____, food, medical care, and offender programs.
security
The brain of the cell.
the nucleus
True or False:
John Wolford pushed the Penitentiary Act of 1779.
False
The Penitentiary Act gave jails secure and ______ structures.
sanitary
Place where offenders would work off legal fines if they couldn't pay.
Work Houses
When other facilities are overcrowded, where can law enforcement send inmates to relieve the facilities?
jails
What is D in the military alphabet
delta
Earliest gaols in England originated in what year?
1166
Creation of a reformatory regime in which inmates were confined in solitary cells but worked in _______
common rooms
This was one of the main form of punishment in jails until the 18th century with the _________.
Walnut Street Jail
What caused a shift in jail operations?
the Penitentiary Act of 1779