Criminal Justice ch14-17
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mariahswan on April 13, 2011
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Walnut Street Jail | the first american penitentiary |
| Separate system | each inmate is kept in solitary confinement so they can't associate with others |
| Silent System | Confinement with rigid rules of silence among inmates |
| Contract System | Inmate labor is leased to an outside contractor |
| Piece price System | a contractor supplies the raw materials and receives a finsihed product, paying the prison for each individual item produced |
| Lease system | contractors assume full control over inmates |
| State use system | inmate produced goods are utilized by state institutions |
| prison | a correctional institution maintained by fedreal and state govts for the confinement of felons |
| Jails | local facilities for temporary detention |
| cesare beccaria | law limited in scope, innocent until proven guilty, law should define in advance both offenses and punishments, punishment hsould be retrubutive, severity of punishment should be proportionate to the crime, nature of the punishment should correspond with the nature of the offense, speed and certainty of punishment, punishment should not be used to make an example of the offender for society, nor for reformation, it's better to prevent crimes rather than punish them |
| Mark system | sentences should not be for a period of time but for the performance of a determined and specified quantity of labor. the quanitiy of labor a prisoner must perform should be expressed in a number of makrs which he must earn by improvement of conduct, frugality, habits of industry, the prisoner should earn everything he receives, when appropriate the prisoner should work in small groups of 6-7 and the group should be answerable for the conduct and labor of each other, in the final stage, the prisoner should be a given a proprietary interest in his own labor an dbe subject to less rigourous discpipline in order prepare for reentry into society |
| The Irish system | solitary confinement 2 yrs, congregate labor under a marketing system, interdeterminate stage during which inmates are permitted to work outside jobs, conditional release under a ticket of leave which later becomes parole |
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