LEGALST 160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Progressive Era, Jim Crow Laws, Solitary Confinement
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Penology- study of punishment of crime and management of incarceration facilities. Gallery slavery- sentence forcing the convict to work as a rower on a ship. Transportation- sentence that stated that the convict was exiled and transported. Pennsylvania system- prisoners were kept in solitary confinement and expected to repent and reform through contemplation of their sins and god. many went insane. Auburn systems- prisoners would perform silent labor in groups by day and be placed in solitary confinement by night. Poor laws was used by the europeans to control and regulate the movement of the immigrants. The main purpose of the house of corrections was to exploit the labor of unwilling workers; and inmates were forced to work in the institution. Before the 18th century, jails were utilized to hold defendants before trials but during the. 18th century, jails became factories for the manufacture of goods. Solitary confinement was an invention during the 19th century.
