SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Security Interest, Anger Management, Kingston Penitentiary

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Canadian institutions in the early 21st century hold a disproportionate number of persons who are marginalized in society: the poor, Pennsylvania model: early 1800s operated on a separate and silent system, in which prisoners were completely isolated in their cells from one another. Auburn model (originating in new york state): prisoners worked and ate together during the day and slept in individual cells at night. A system of strict silence, which forbade prisoners from communicating or even gesturing to one another, was enforced at all times. The system on which prisons in the us and canada were patterned. 1835, the kingston penitentiary was the largest public building in. Upper canada, which symbolized a moral architecture, one that reflected the themes of order and morality. Hard labor and a strong emphasis on religion were the focal points of the reformation process within the penitentiary.