Correction Trends Evaluation Paper
Angela Rosado
CJA/394 Contemporary Issues and Future in Criminal Justice
September 19, 2011
Christopher Manning

Paper Correction Trends Evaluation The question at hand today is where and how is our correction system going to be in the future? But to understand and know how the future of our corrections will be, we must first understand the past and the present trends of corrections. In this paper I will discuss the past, present and future trends of corrections, I will analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators as well as the role/issues of alternate correction systems as a developing trend.
Past Corrections In today’s society the jails and prison pretty much function in the same ways. The history of the State prisons began at the Walnut Street Jail in 1790, it was called the first American penitentiary located in Philadelphia, and the building had been operated as a city jail. Some of the same functions and principles were used in England, also these functions were used in the United States as early as the eighteenth century, in England during that time did very little when it came down to punishment. There was very little difference between the two correction systems in the United States, the punishment was significant, but it was very noticeable that the American’s corrections’ system difference in punishment, for example: the use of capital punishment. Therefore, when it came down to the death sentence, the United States had more criminals sentenced to death than England’s courts. For many, they fought against the conviction of death, and even torture, but at that time that was the law, for the death sentence in a pre-meditated murder cases, but in today’s society, much of that has been lifted, but it is still used today. The main goal of the corrections system is for the