Sociology 2256A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Halfway House, Stockwell Day, Solitary Confinement
8 Dec 2016
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John howard: pu(cid:271)lished his (cid:271)ook (cid:862)the state of priso(cid:374)s(cid:863) The book was an account of his exhaustive investigations of jails across england and europe. He proposed for a new prison system in which he believed would be both fair and humane. He called it special houses of penance- penitentiaries. It would be quiet, clean and orderly: there would be no corporal punishment. This lead to the british penitentiary act-1778 it provided for major reforms including safe and sanitary buildings, regular prison inspections. He died before he ever knew that the regime he fought so hard for the system if solitary confinement- would come to be feared as the cruelest punishment of all * He saw people with gaol sever and small-pox. Elizabeth fry: she visited female prisoners at new gate prison and was horrified by what she saw: a horde of filthy, ragged, drunken women stacked on each other.
