01:202:203 Study Guide - Puritans, Penology, Zebulon Brockway
29 Oct 2014
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Puritans maintained a strict society, governed my religious principles, and they rigorously punished violations of religious laws. Common penalties included banishment, corporal punishment, the pillory, and death. William penn english quaker who arrived in philadelphia in 1682. Pennsylvania to adopt the great law emphasizing hard labor in a house of correction as punishment for most crimes. Populations shift came about around the late 1700s as a result of rapid social and economic changes. By 1830, the rural population had doubled and the urban population had tripled. As a result, social problems could no longer be handled simply by the help of neighbors. Penitentiary an institution to isolate prisoners from society and from one another so that they could reflect their past misdeeds, repent, and thus undergo reformation. First penitentiary was conceptualized by the english reformers and their american quaker allies, first appeared in 1790 as part of philadelphia s walnut street jail which was converted to allow separate confinement.
