Learning Objectives
- Describe the origins of early modern prisons
- Evaluate the two predominate prison systems of the early 1800s and their strengths and weaknesses
- Summarize what the social critics (Beaumont, Tocqueville, and Dix) thought of the early prisons and why
- Explain why reform of prisons and jails was needed and how those reform efforts worked out
- Assess where we are today in America in terms of prison types and how we got there
- Describe the prevailing themes in correctional history