...Development of Corrections Candice Rogers Axia College of University of Phoenix CJS/230 Feb. 27, 2012 Before the 1800s, women in prison were treated just as the men were treated; they were also punished just as men were. The only woman that was treated differently was pregnant women. The pregnant women were spared punishment until after they had given birth. The labor they had to endure was a little different than what the men had to endure, but they were all required to work just as hard. The hard work the women had to endure was things such as sewing, cleaning, laundry, and cooking. The women felt liked they were over worked; they were expected to act like women but were treated like men. Nowadays, I believe women’s prisons have changed dramatically. The women don’t have fewer rules than men. However, the women send and receive more calls from children and family, received and sent more mail, had more visits, and participated in more social clubs. I do believe women get treated better than men in prisons today. This does not include how the women are treated by the other inmates. Every prison, women or not, can be very violent. Three basic arguments established in the 1800s that supported the separation of juvenile prisons from adult prisoners were the following: They believe penitentiary life would be too hard on the youth. They believed the juveniles would learn bad habits from the older criminals and the experience would embittered by the confident. And they would...
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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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...• What were women’s prisons like before the 1800s? How have they changed? Before the 1800’s women were treated the same as men in prison. Women were punished just like the men were, with the exception that pregnant women were often spared punishment until after they had given birth. Both men and women were mixed together as prisoners and were watched by male jailers, which made the women prisoners subjected to abuse and mistreated. Most female inmates at this time were prostitutes or thieves and because of this no one really worried about what was happening to them. This all began to change in the early 1800’s when Elizabeth Gurney Fry began a ministry for the women in prison. Fry would visit the prisons and read the Bible to the female inmates even though she was advised of the dangers that were possible. Fry created the Association of the Improvement of the Female Prisoners in Newgate in 1817. In the U.S., Eliza W.B. Farnham was the head matron of the women’s wing at Sing Sing Prison in New York from 1844-1848. She tried to make the women’s prison more like a home instead of a prison. She was fired for basically being too nice to the inmates. In 1873 the first separate prison for women was built. (Foster, "Women's Prisons," 2006) The prisons have changed because now the male and female prisoners have been separated. • What are the three basic arguments established in the 1800s that supported the separation of juvenile prisoners from adult prisoners? What would happen...
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...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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...Sarah Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft represent marriage similarly in their respective stories. They both view marriage as a confining institution where the women predominately do not reap any benefits from it. Marriage is simply a market in which women are bartered and sold to a willing man in which these women then become part of their property In Wollstonecraft’s Maria, marriage is basically a prison in which women are treated as slaves. The ideology of marriage as an institution means women are “exchangeable commodities” (Battisti & Fiorato) and are objectified because of their gender and role in society, in short women, once married are denied rights in terms of economy or freedom of choice. As Maria says “"[is] not the world a vast prison,...
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...Introduction to Corrections Michele Lira CJS/230 May 16, 2012 James Pepin Development of Corrections Before the 1800’s there really wasn’t any women prisons. Jails before the 1800’s had often treated women exactly as they treated men. The numbers of women in custody were very small- often just a handful among a much larger number of male prisoners. “Corrections The Fundamentals, author: Foster, Burk. Pg.32, par.4”. The women were mixed with male prisoners, and supervised by male jailers. The prisons began to change in the early 1800’s because of a woman by the name of Elizabeth Gurney fry. She began a ministry for women of Newgate and other London jails and prisons. Fry organized the Association for the improvement of the female’s prisoners in Newgate in 1817. She argued for separate prison facilities for women, run by women, and shaped for the needs of women prisoners. The United States reformers took up the separatist cause. Eliza W. B. Farnham was head matron of the women’s wing at sing sing prison. She made the prisons environments look more like a middle-class home. The first prison for women only was called the Indiana State Reformatory which was established in 1873. The three basic arguments that were established in the 1800’s that supported the separation of juvenile’s from adults were, (1) The penitentiary regimen was too hard on tender youth, (2) Juveniles would learn bad habits from older criminals...
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...The history of prisons in 1800 Harold Flower CHS/230 December 8, 2011 Vashell Anderson The history of prisons in 1800 Prisons before the 1800’s did not have women prisons. In those days the prison were mixed with men, children and women all in the same prison. The prisons in the 1800’s that held women prisoners were treated just like the men in those prison the women also had to do hard labor which consisted of sewing, laundry, cleaning and cooking. All the women were to act like lady’s but also had to be treated like men in those prisons the women talked about how they were over worked and that they wasn’t fed enough in the prisons of the 1800’s. After the 1800’s the prisons started to change this was depending where and what prison you was in at that time there was no toilets in most cases the toilet was a bucket and it might not have been emptied too often. There were prisoners that didn’t do much at all but sat around and waited to die also at that time the cafeterias were not established so the food was forced through the cell bars and you had to eat what they fed you and it wasn’t much and it tasted really bad. You was lucky to be fed every day in today’s prison you do get three meals a day, schooling, and do jobs that are inside the prison also there are some prisoners allowed to work outside the prison walls, there is clean running water with bathrooms and showers, and the best part is that the prisoners have bunks instead of laying on the ground. In the 1800’s...
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...Phoenix Online – Axia College There was a perplexing problem in the early 1800’s because the rate of women incarcerated was much lower than the rates of women incarcerated today. In reality women’s prisons did not exist, therefore the jails often treated women the same as they did the men, as well the women were punished the same way the men were “with the exception that pregnant women were often spared punishment until after they had given birth” (Foster, 2006, pg. 32). Most women incarcerated were because of prostitution and stealing. Foster also states that women incarcerated were generally mixed with the makes and they were supervised by males. (Foster 2006, pg. 32). According to Foster this began to change when Elizabeth Gurney Fry took a visit to Newgate Prison in 1813. Gurney Fry organized the Association for the Improvement of the Female Prisoners on 1817. In 1863, the Detroit House of Correction was opened. This facility had a unit separated for the women, and there were female guards in this unit. In today’s society, the female prisons are much like the male prisons. They operate with increased security concerns, and there are special housing units for the disorderly. While there was a movement to improve the prisons for women there were also reformers who were working hard to help reform the laws for children. In that era children who committed crimes were treated like the adults who committed crimes. As time passed, it was seen that children could not reason like...
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...Outdated practices of feminine theories, and stereotypes of the past bring serious consequences, especially for incarcerated women nowadays with regard to the sexual division of labor. As men are identified with the occupations of the field of public life, economic and political, which take, in fact, the responsibility for dealing with them. However, the same does not happen for women; they are confined to the womanly domestic occupation, so they can be a good servant. The media, the law, and the prison system portraits deviant women as mentally unstable also as someone who does not behave in a feminine manner. Angela Yvonne Davis is a political activist, scholar and author of the book, Are prisons Obsolete? This book challenges its readers...
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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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...Prior to the 1800’s Women’s prison really did not exist. Prisons were all coed with women serving their sentence right next to the men and with the children. Women were expected and did perform “hard labor” just like the men. Work that women performed in the prison system were things like cooking, sewing and the laundry for the facility. The women were to preserve their image of a lady but worked just as hard as their counterparts. Women often complained that they were not being fed enough because society said, “ladies do not eat that much” but were being worked harder than the men. One inside of prison was lucky to be fed on a daily basis, and they were fed inside the cell, with the food just being pushed inside their cell. Bathroom facilities really did not exist. They were often just buckets that one would have to use and did not get emptied on a regular basis. Showers consisted of using a bucket to wash yourself as best you could. This caused a lot of sickness and disease, not to mention the stench. Today prisoners are not forced to work and are fed 3 meals a day inside of a cafeteria like atmosphere. Prisoners that do get to perform work are called “trustees”. This is an earned privilege that prisoner request and is granted if qualified by the staff. They are given proper medical attention and also have showers and toilets. Children were later separated from the adults for 3 different reasons. First and foremost, children being placed with adults were taken advantage...
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...Corrections Women’s prisons before the 1800’s were just as bad as the men’s prisons. The women were often treated like servants and were abused just as the men prisoners were. The only exception to the abuse was pregnant women, but after the women gave birth, they were abused. The prisons were also monitored and watched over by male wards and the women prisoners were mixed in with the male prisoners. By being mixed with the male prisoners the women not only suffered from verbal abuse from the other prisoners and the wardens in the prison, they suffered from sexual abuse. Women prisons have changed since then. They have been separated from men’s prisons and are monitored by women wardens. These prisons were also changed from the traditional prison look to a look that comforts the women in the prisons. The three basic arguments that supported the separation of juvenile prisoners were “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). If there were no distinction between adult and juvenile prisons there would be children who would possibly get punished as adults and there could be adults who would receive lighter sentences due to the leniency towards juveniles. The purpose of prison labor was to have the prisoners...
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...Do Prisons Work? Can Individuals be Reformed or Rehabilitated through Incarceration and Treatment Programs. Critically examine the Current Treatment Programs offered and Subsequent Impact on Recidivism upon Individuals being released globally and WA specifically. This study will examine the effectiveness of current prison treatment programs in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, United States of America in rehabilitating or reforming an individual and coinciding recidivism rates upon a prisoners release. Prison based treatment programs for sex offenders in Western Australia, New South Wales and New Zealand are examined and recidivism rates compared. Treatment programs for offenders with drug and alcohol issues and the various strategies within the criminal justice system such as diversion, education and drug court programs are examined and differences explained. Rehabilitation programs such as education, life skills, employment and cognitive behavioural treatment are explained and research discussed. Conclusions will be drawn outlining programs with the highest level of recidivism both in Western Australia and globally. The “nothing works” mantra (Martinson) 1974, is seen to be refuted and treatment is seen to be successful when it is matched to the criminogenic needs of the offender (MacKenzie, 2006). Future recommendations are made in regards to the need for correctional staff to assess each offender as an individual with different needs, and to therefore...
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...As item A suggests women are treated more leniently than men by the criminal justice system which is supported by the official statistics; for example women are more likely than men to be cautioned rather than prosecuted. According to the Ministry of Justice, 49% of females recorded as offending received a caution in 2007, whereas for males the figure was only 30%, this suggests that women are less likely to be sent to prison or even prosecuted in the first place. Similarly, Roger Hood’s study of over 3000 defendants found that women were about one-third less likely than males to be sent to jail. Also typically female crimes such as shoplifting are less likely to be reported. For example, property crime is less likely to be reported than the violent or sexual crimes more often committed by men and when women’s crimes are detected or reported they are less likely to be prosecuted or are let off lightly. This suggestion therefore supports the items belief that women are treated more leniently than men by the criminal justice system. The chivalry thesis argues that most criminal justice agents – such as police officers, magistrates and judges – are men, and men are socialised to act in a chivalrous way towards women. Otto Pollak (1950) argues that men have a protective attitude towards women therefore men hate to accuse women, send them to their punishment, arrest them, prosecute them or find them guilty. Men feel sympathy towards women and do not wish to cause them hurt or upset...
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...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 overcrowded, more conflict could have being in the prison. The main purpose of the prison labor is, first it is a form of punishment for the crime that they committed...
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