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