The PenitentiaryWillie BinghamCJ4/23408/17/11
Larry Doyle

Introduction
For as far as we can remember there has been some kind of punishment and confinement that man has always tried to improve. There are many ways to punish a person and there was different types of people who devoted themselves to actually coming up with rules that kept certain people safe. The government plays a important role always, but religious leader and special group of people all gather information to help protect society. If you read the Bible, which is one of the oldest book written, Moses brought from the mountain, laws that God had written and people knew if those rules wasn't followed you would be punish. There are laws that the Roman Empire created to keep peace, which also was the European who later on discovered America
Confinement of People
After determining the laws, key leader had to come up with ways to keep people who broke the rules away from the good citizen. One solution was to move away from biblical argument. By the 1820s, most states had amended their penal codes. In 1793 William Bradford and the attorney general of the United States showed interest in the old penal codes. Bradford (1793,1792)
Places where people were held was call prison, big house and other names;during these time of adjusting the condition in some prison was horrible, and the way the prisoner were treated wasn't good either. One of the roles that prisons played in many states was based off of two systems the Auburn and Pennsylvania. The Auburn system the prisoner worked in silence but together, and the Pennsylvania system they worked silence and isolated, both systems worked in some ways but didn't in others. Prisoner started going insane and it was to much to handle. Thomas Blomberg (2000). The prisons started to grow fast during the 1800s and 1900s century, and were the prisons used methods