Corrections

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Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Development of Corrections

Conrodney Franklin

CJS/230

University of Phoenix

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Development of Corrections

Women's prisons in the 1800's had often treated women exactly as they treated men. Rates of incarceration were much lower in those days than they are today, and the number of women in custody were very small in numbers. Women were punished as men were, with the exception that pregnant women were often spared punshment unitl after they had given birth (Foster, 2006 pg.32). Women were put together with male prisoners and supervised only by jailers, which made the women more so combined to abuse and exploitation. As the penitentiary became firmly established in the first half of the 1800's, reformers argued that young people should not be locked up with adults. Three basic arguments were that the penitentiary regimen was too hard on tender youth, juveniles would learn bad habits from older criminals and be embitterod by the experience of confinement, and adolescents could be reformed if they were divorted early enough into institutions designed specifically for people their age (Foster, 2006 pg. 34). Prison labor came because of the heavy taxes to meet the expenses of rebuilding the shattered economy, and committed to the traditional notion that convicts should , by their maintenance and even to create additional revenue. Prison labor is still enforce but their has been a decline because prisoners were doing all the work and the rise of unemployment has constantly went up. There were no need jobs for people, if the government were getting everything for a cheaper labor.

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Reference

Foster, B. (2006).Corrections: The Fundamentals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall