CJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Elmira Correctional Facility, Eye For An Eye, Solitary Confinement

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 100
• Professor: Treadway

Document Summary

Early punishments incorporating corporal punishment fit the doctrine of lex talionis: prisons seen as a humanitarian alternative. Earliest records of incarceration date back to the middle ages. Imprisonment as punishment developed in us in late 18th century. The penitentiary era (1790-1825: pennsylvania system used solitary confinement, rehabilitation. The mass prison era (1825-1876: auburn system, congregate, silent, tier (cells stacked on top of each other) The reformatory era (1876-1890: elmira reformatory, development of parole, indeterminate sentencing, emphasis on reformation over punishment. The punitive era (1935-1945: emphasis on custody, institutional security, retribution. The treatment era (1945-1967: medical model of corrections, emphasis on rehabilitation. The community-based era (1967-1980: emphasis on community corrections, diversion, decarceration, rehabilitation. The warehousing era (1980-1995: focus on incapacitation, nothing-works doctrine, failure of rehabilitation. The just desserts era (1995-2012: focus on justive model, emphasis on individual responsibility, return to punishment as purpose of incarceration, get tough initiatives.