SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Kingston Penitentiary, Regional Reception Centre, Solitary Confinement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

First penitentiary as in kingston, ontario in the early 1800s. Americans built penitentiaries in an attempt to create settings in which the criminals could be transformed into useful citizens through religious contemplation and hard work. Pennsylvania model (for prisoners) is a separate and silent system in which prisoners were completely isolated from one another; eating, working and sleeping in separate cells. Auburn model (for prisoners) is a system that allowed prisoners to work and eat together during the day and housed them in individual cells at night. Moral architecture is the term used to describe the design of the first penitentiary in canada, the intent of which was to reflect themes of order and morality. Breaches of prison regulations brought swift and harsh punishment, including flogging, leg irons, solitary confinement and rations of bread/water. Brown commission is an investigation into the operation of the kingston.