...Development of Corrections Amanda Williams CJS-230 October 26, 2011 Anthony Byrd Development of Corrections Before the 1800s prisons for women were almost non-existent; prisons were all in one for men, women, and children. The few women that were in prison before the 1800s were treated just as the men were treated, sometimes worse. Besides being made to do hard labor, like sewing, cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry these women were raped and abused by men prisoners and prison guards. Most of the women in prison were presumed to be prostitutes so they were made to act more lady like, but these women were treated like men. Since the 1800s prisons have changed drastically. Then a prison cell could be a hole in the wall. There were no toilets in the cells, prisoners were made to use a bucket and they were not emptied on a regular basis. Prisoners were not allowed to eat their meals around other prisons; their food was pushed through the bars in the cells. That was if they got food every day. Today’s prisons get three hot meals a day and are allowed to eat with other prisoners. They are able to get an education and allowed to work outside the prison. Prisons today have clean water for showers and toilets in every cell and each prison cell has a ground. And today’s prisons are all separate for men, women, and children. The reason prisons were segregated is because it was believed the penitentiary regimen was too hard on the tender youth, juveniles would learn bad habits...
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...Development of Corrections Caroline E Marczuk University of Phoenix, Development of Corrections Professor David December 20th, 2015 200- to 300-word response to the following questions: * What were women's prisons like before the 1800s? How have they changed? * What are the three basic arguments established in the 1800s that supported the separation of juvenile prisoners from adult prisoners? What would happen if there were no distinction between prisons for juveniles and adults? * What was the purpose of prison labor? What caused the decline of prison labor? The original idea of the big house was to provide an income to the state for the sale of goods produced by prisoners to the public to cover the cost to build and facilitate the prisoners by industrializing the prisoners. Hard work cut the rate of criminal activity by burning down the energy prisoners once had by being subject to solitary confinement. The income would go into state accounts helping cover the costs to house so many inmates and decrease taxes that citizens had to pay which was very costly. There were fewer women than in later dates that were locked up, women and children were not housed separately either they were treated equally as grown men this created conflict and, even more, criminal activity within the big house. Women were subject to sexual abuse from not only the male prisoners but also male guards. Women were more at risk for harassment of both verbal and sexual until 1816 when Elizabeth...
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...Development of Corrections Hope Washington CJS/230 Introduction to Corrections May 2, 2013 John Feltgen Throughout history, the female criminal has been cast as a "double-deviant"; first, because she violated the criminal or moral law and, second, perhaps more importantly, because she has violated the narrow moral strictures of the female role within society. In almost every Western society, women have been cast as second-class citizens, subservient to the will and wishes of men. Women who violated the law, then, also violated their subservient position and were seen as morally suspect as well as criminal. Prior to the development of prisons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, punishment for women and men took a variety of forms: Serious offenders were put to death by hanging or burning, or banished from their community or sold as slaves. Prisons for women have changed now because they are not as brutal and it was in the 1800’s but women still go to prison for crimes they have committed. Despite the evidence for pre-modern concerns about juvenile crime, a number of historians have argued that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was a pivotal period of change in the treatment of juvenile criminals. Accordingly, a traditional approach to the history of crime has argued that during the nineteenth century there was an invention of juvenile crime, and that, henceforth, the foundations were laid for the juvenile justice system of the later nineteenth century...
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...Development of Corrections Before the 1800’s, women were treated like their male counterparts and were also put into the same cells as males and supervised by males. This in turn would cause the women to be doubly abused and exploited (Foster, 2006). Women would get punished just as the men, with the exception of the women prisoners that were pregnant. If a woman was pregnant they would not be subjected to any type of punishment until after they gave birth. Women’s prisons were changed by Elizabeth Gurney Fry that was an English Quaker and would visit prisons to read the bible to the inmates. She was the organizer of the Association for the Improvement of the Female Prisoners in Newgate in 1817 (Foster, 2006). Fry argued that women prisoners needed separate facilities than men and that women should run women’s prisons as well. The three basic arguments established in the 1800’s that supported the separation of juvenile prisoners from adult prisoners is that “the penitentiary regimen was too hard on tender youth; juveniles would learn bad habits from older criminals and be embittered by the experience of confinement; and adolescents could be reformed if they were diverted early enough into institutions designed specifically for people their age” (Foster, 2006, pg. 34). If there were no distinction between prisons for juveniles and adults the juveniles would be subject...
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...The Development of Corrections Stephanie Casby CJS / 230 August 17th, 2011 Shane Poole The Development of Corrections Many things have changed since the 1800’s from; the way prisons were ran to housing the prisoners. In this paper I will discuss what women’s prison was like in the 1800’s and how they are different today. I will discuss the three arguments that supported the separation of juvenile prisoners from the adult prisoners. I will also discuss the purpose of prison labor and what caused the decline of prison labor. In the 1800’s women were house with men, they were treated and punished just like the men. Back then they didn’t worry about women because most were prostitutes and really didn’t care about their welfare. Women were sexually abused by staff and other male prisoners; they were worked like horses doing the work that women normally take care of such as, cleaning, sewing and cooking. Today, women are housed separately from the men and usually in a whole different prison. Along with women, children were also punished and housed with other adults. There were three arguments that influenced a separate place for juveniles. The first is that the penitentiary regimen was too hard for young kids. The second argument was that juveniles would learn bad habits from the older criminals and un-socialized by confinement. The third argument was that the adolescents could be reformed if they were taught early enough into institutions for people their age. They...
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...Development of Corrections Francisco Rojas CJS/230 October 7, 2015 Mr. Peter Brothers Women’s prisons before the 1800’s were one and the same as men’s prisons. They were all housed together and conducted all daily tasks together. They shared almost everything even the male guards, they were at high risk of sexual assault and abuse from the men. The prison system started to changed in 1816 when Elizabeth Fry a prison reformer began to fight for women prisoner’s rights and safety. Fry’s main argument was to segregate the women from the men prisoner’s, labor tasks that are appropriate for a woman, and female guards for the women prisoners. These steps would make it safer for a woman to serve their prison term without the distraction of males in anyway. When it came down to the separation of juveniles and adult prisoner’s there were three arguments used to make this happen. 1. Juveniles could be reformed easier if they were housed with inmates of their same ages. 2. The regular prison system settings and rules were to hard for a juvenile to be reformed in. 3. The fact the the juveniles would learn bad skills and habits from the adult prisoner’s. Without keeping the adults away from the juveniles there would be many cases of juveniles being abused in many ways. With them being physically, mentally, and sexually abused. A juvenile will never be reformed under those conditions. Prison labor in the 1800’s was a way to keep prisoner’s busy mentally...
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...Development of correction Tarnesh T.Singh University of phoenix Gerald Norris, CJS/230 Introduction of correction For every successful men there is a hand of a women. Looking back at the history of women in this country, women have played very important role in the development of this country. Back in the 1800’s all women prisoners were held together with their children. Women were not given the basic needs that are required, not proper food, no medical assistance and no proper supervision. Women were treated very harshly in the prison, women were mostly taken advantage of, for example most of the women prisoners were sexually assaulted in the prison. Most of the women prisoners were given capital punishment and some lived in the crammed space. Most of the women prisoners were not taken care of, as most of them tried to commit suicide. If we look at the women’s prison now day. All the women prisoners are given their basic right, for example all women prisoners should be under the care of female guards, women prisoners should have some privacy, example women inmates are separate from the male inmates and women prisoners sleep separately. All inmates that are working should be paid for the work. Proper medical and other basic needs to be provided. Proper living condition to be provided, education and other service to also be provide . If all the prisoners were kept together, the prison would have being...
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...Check Point: Development of Corrections CJS/230 September 11,2013 Mr. Jerry Shoate Today in society prison a place where people are physically confined and usually deprived of such wide range of personal freedom the overall imprisonment or incarceration penalty that may have been imposed by the state for the crime that the person have committed. Prison for women were non-existent before the 1800s. When you through about the prison it was all the men, women and children all in one room together. Later on in the 1800s women who were put into prison were being treated no different from men. When the women were in prison they had to endure hard labor like cooking, cleaning, laundry and sewing but no matter what went on in prison women were expected to act like women should act but treated like man. In the women prison today a lot of things have change women are now kept separated from the men even though in certain state there are men and women still in the same prison but in different buildings. Prisons today have now started to offer prisoner education course for them to earn their high school GED, also job training to make things easier for the prisoner to be able to maintain a job and a bed for them to sleep in. There were three arguments that they were trying to establish in the 1800s that supported the separation of the juveniles from adult prisoners would be that if the juveniles were put into the same penitentiary with the adults. Secondly, people felt that...
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...Development of Corrections Women’s prisons, prior to and during the early 1800’s, were deplorable at best. Women, who committed crimes, from common theft to capital murder, were held in the same cells together, along with their children, until they were tried at trial. Prisons did not provide food, clothing or drinks to the women and children during their stay. Family members had to provide those items themselves. Children also accompanied the women to their trial and executions. Afterwards, many died still in prison. In 1816, Elizabeth Frye founded the association for the improvement of female prisoners, introducing six reform goals: That women should care and guard each other; only communication between them that would discipline and discourage theft after prison; that prisoners should not depend on family for necessities such as food and clothing; prisoners were to be paid for work done in the prison, so they may support the rehabilitation; the women should work and eat together, but sleep separately; and religious instruction for full rehabilitation. The three basic arguments established in the 1800’s that support the separation of juvenile prisoners from adult prisoners are; 1. Penitentiary procedures were too harsh on younger delinquents. 2. Younger prisoners picked-up bad habits and examples from adult prisoners; also, confinement left them bitter after a certain amount of time. 3. Juveniles can be reformed...
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...Development of Corrections XXXXXXX CJS/230 2012 XXXXXXX Prior to the 1800’s early jails and prisons had no separate provisions to house women prisoners. There were few women in custody and they treated the same as the males and also worked as hard as the males. Women were subjected to abuse as they were mixed with different male prisoners and were guarded by male jailers. There was little concern because of the nature of their crimes. There were volunteers that would visit the prisons for many reasons to try to transform the prisoners into more spiritual middle class home makers. The first separate prison for the women in America was opened in 1873 followed by many others over the years, but even with this transformation they were still being housed in State Prisons and local jails. It was not until after WWII before many of the states had addressed the needs of the women. In the beginning of the 1800’s as prisons were still being established, reformers argued that prison life would be too hard on young people. One concern was the negative impact that the elder prisoners would have on the juveniles; also they felt that confinement would also harden them. The reformers wanted to place the young people in institutions appropriate to their age where they can have a chance to be reformed. Criminal behavior was mostly concentrated in the larger cities, which some set up housing to keep children or teen who were convicted of crimes and/or were sentenced...
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...Development of Corrections Throughout the history of the criminal justice system the prison system has changed on many different levels from women in prisons to the separation of juveniles and adults in prison and prison labor. Each of these changes has benefited those involved on different levels overall. The development of corrections has gone through multiple levels of changes and provides a better environment for all prisoners. Prior to the 1800’s the number of women in prisons was small compared to the number of men. The women in prison primarily consisted of prostitutes and thieves and they were treated just like the men were treated, the only difference was that if a woman was pregnant prior to entering the prison system then their punishment was suspended until after the birth of their babies. Today women and men are housed separately and their feminine needs are met such as health needs and psychological and mental needs as well. Juveniles at one point were also housed with adult prisoners but this changed as well. There were three main arguments as to why juveniles should be housed separately from adults. First, it was believed that the prison life was too harsh on juveniles. Second, many argued that juveniles would learn bad habits from the adult prisoners which would make it harder to rehabilitate them, and then they turn into habitual criminals doing larger crimes. Finally, it has been argued that in order for juveniles to be able to be rehabilitated they would...
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...Development of Corrections Lisa Harbin CJS/230 Stephen Slaughter Development of Corrections Up until the late 1800s, women were confined with men. There were no women prisons. They may not have been put in the same cells but their daily activities, so to speak, with the men. The women had to do hard labor just as the men had to do. They would be responsible for cooking, cleaning, sewing, and laundry. They were also subject to sexual abuse by the male inmates as well as the male guards. Many of the women survived prison by becoming prostitutes. Women prisons have changed quite a bit over the years. “Elizabeth Fry began her work to reform the conditions of English women’s prisons in 1816, the reformatory movement, and the United States developed later in the mid-nineteenth century. Prisons for women then diverged into two directions, custodial institutions and the reformatory” (law.jrank.org).There were also children that were sentenced to the same prisons men and women were in. In the 1800s there were three basic arguments established to support juveniles being separated from adult prisoners. The first argument was that the penitentiary regimen was too hard on tender youth. Second, juveniles would learn bad or worse behavior from older inmates and be embittered by the experience of confinement. The last argument was that adolescents could be reformed if they were diverted early enough into institutions designed specifically for people their age. If there...
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...Development of Corrections Development of Corrections Men, women, and juveniles were all held in the same prisons in the United States prior to 1800. They were all treated the same and they were cramped and were expected to do work like laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The Indiana State Reformatory built a separate prison for women in 1873 and then Massachusetts and New York followed shortly after. The women prisons were built in a different design giving them a more spacious environment and better commodities. The treatment of the women was different from the men and referred to as “ladies”. Most of the women’s prisons incorporated labor into their daily activities which were considered to be normal, such as laundry, sewing, cleaning, and cooking. In today’s prisons women are just like all the regular prisons and some of them hold women and men in the same building but separate. The juveniles were kept in the prison with the men and women before 1800, also. The argument in regards to the children was that the normal practices were too harsh for them. They expected the children to perform the same task as the adults and this sometimes was impossible for them to do. Officials thought the treatment of the children was too cruel and unacceptable because at that stage in their lives they were still developing and they could be reformed more easily. They also argued that the children were not as mentally strong to take the harsh treatment they were receiving in the...
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...Development of Corrections Ana Christopherson University of Phoenix Women prisons before the 18oo’s were non-existent. Before the 19th century, women were housed in the same prisons as men. Back then, women were treated the same as the men were. Women were not only housed with men, but also they were supervised by men, which mean that women were twice as likely to be harmed in some way. Prisons for women today have change dramatically. Now, women are housed in separate facilities from male prisoners, and there are more female guards supervising women as well. Elizabeth Gurney Fry is credited for the separatist movement to get women housed in separate facilities and for ensuring that women are supervised by other women (Foster, 2006). The movement to give women separate facilities from men also inspired others to focus on separating juveniles from men as well. There are three basic arguments that supported the separation of juveniles, they are as follows: the first one was that the penitentiary regimen was too hard for tender youth (Foster, 2006, p. 34), the next one was that juveniles would learn bad habits from older criminals and be embittered by the experience of confinement (Foster, 2006, p. 34), and the last one is that adolescents could be reformed if they were diverted early enough into institutions designed specifically for people their age (Foster, 2006, p. 34). If there was no distinction for juveniles from adults, then the juveniles could become more inclined...
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...Development of Corrections CJS230 John O'Hern The 18th century government had started sending prisoners to penal colonies, this was first in America, for a given period, usually seven years, but in some cases for life. The American War of Independence which broke out in 1775 stopped this. After this men and women were sent to new penal colonies in Australia. During the course of the years roughly 160,000 people were sent including both men and women of all different ages some as young as nine years old. Despite evidence of concerns about juvenile crime, several of historians have debated that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was a pivotal era of change in the treatment that juvenile criminals received. Accordingly, a traditional approach to the history of crime has debated that during the nineteenth century there was what some would call and “invention” of juvenile crime, and that the foundations were created for the juvenile justice system not only for the nineteenth century but also for our modern system. Several key features that were enshrined in this system were the axiomatic tension between systems of punishment and reformation, as well as the seperation of juveniles and adults on all stages of the criminal justice system which was effectively the removal of the child from what were believed as debilitating domestic environments. Traditional histories show that it was no coincidence...
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