Early Punishment
Flogging, Mutilation, Branding, Public Humiliation, Exile
What are the five early forms of Punishment?
Inmates lived, ate, and worked together in enforced silence. If they did not obey, this system depended on whipping and hard labor.
What is the Auburn System?
Maintained roads and highways, cleaned parks and restored public buildings
What is Public-works system?
Federal Bureau of prison was created in this year
What is 1930?
State Security Levels
What is Maximum, Medium, and Minimum?
Historically, the most widely used of physical punishment
What is flogging?
Federal legislation of 1935 which effectively ended the industrial prison era by restricting interstate commerce in prison-made goods.
What is the Ashurst-Sumners Act?
Private Businesses paid to use inmate labor
What is Contract system?
Typically located near military bases
What is Minimum Security?
thick walls, secure cells, gun towers, armed guards, radio communication between staff
What is a Maximum Security?
Examples include: amputating the hands of thieves, blinding spies and castrating rapist.
What is Mutilation?
A late-nineteenth-century correctional model based upon the use of the indeterminate sentence and belief in the possibility of rehabilitation. Captain Alexander Maconochie and Sir Walter Crofton were two big names during this time.
What is the Reformatory Era?
Eliminated the use of private contractors. Industries were owned by prisons
What is Public-account system?
Located in Florence, Colorado and house the most dangerous inmates
What is ADMAX?
Housing tends to be dormitory style, and prisoners usually have freedom of movement within the facility. Work is done under general supervision only. “Counts” are usually not taken
What is minimum security?
Used to readily identify convicted offenders and to warn others with whom they might come in contact with
What is Branding?
The philosophy of the Quakers in the Pennsylvania System
What is Rehabilitation and Deterrence?
Prisoners were taken to the work site and turned over to private contractors.
What is Lease system?
Surrounded by doubled chain linked fence, electronic monitoring of the grounds. There are 26 in the United States.
What is Medium Security?
The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate based upon management considerations.
What is Operational Capacity?
Used Stocks and Pillory to hold offenders still in the middle of town allowing community members an opportunity for vengeance
What is Public Humiliation?
America's First "True" Prison
What is the Philadelphia Walnut Street Jail?
Goods were produced for private businesses
What is Piece-price system?
What is four inches?
The number of inmates a prison can handle according to the judgment of experts.
What is Rated Capacity?