On February 23, 1846, Secretary of the Treasury R.J. Walker polled the marshals on the number of federal prisoners housed in state prisons in their districts, the cost per day, and the names …

2012年10月31日 · Considered less than human, prisoners were treated like animals. Thus they were deprived of liberties and declared slaves to society. A frontier prison received, on …

Prison building efforts in the United States came in three major waves. The first began during the Jacksonian Era and led to the widespread use of imprisonment and rehabilitative labor as the …

2015年12月16日 · In the 1880s most prisons would begin their day by waking their prisoner’s with a ‘warning bell’ at 6.20 a.m. and a rising bell at 6.30 a.m. when the prison bell – a hand bell …

Offense by Decade: 1880-1962, 11 Abolition of the Death Penalty by Jurisdiction in the United States by the Time of Furman Decision, 13 Regional Comparison of Total Per-sons Executed …

In the early to mid- 19th Century, US criminal justice was undergoing massive reform. The state prisons which had emerged out of earlier reform efforts were becoming increasingly crowded, …

Between the 1860s and 1880s, prison conditions underwent reformation. People wanted to reform prison for different reasons. Christian reformers felt that prisoners were also God’s creatures …

century Hoosiers led to the modern prison system of hopeful goals and disappointing results that Indiana has today. Previous scholarly work on prisons has proved invaluable in providing a …

2019年5月7日 · By 1880, a standardised six hour treadwheel task was introduced which prisoners worked in two equal shifts. Prisoners were allowed five minutes’ rest between each fifteen …

David J. Rothman's The Discovery of the Asylum, one of the first major works to critically interrogate the beginning of America's extensive reliance on institutionalization, effectively …