Juvenile Justice System In The 1950's

Society’s legal system before the 1700s was very different from what it is today, and punishment has made a huge turn around that is almost unbelievable to study. Criminals have gone from cruel and harsh punishment to obtaining on bail or just pay a fine for their crimes. In modern times, society is use to see criminals paying for their crimes in prison doing two years, 10 years, and sometimes life. The Prison system is very modern compare to the old punishment criminals use to obtain. Physical punishment was use back in history as well as corporal punishment and capital punishment. Laws have change within time creating too many rights for the criminal and giving light punishment. Punishment and the correction system make drastic changes every century, and the understandings of both are complicated do to their changes. A part of society wants harsh punishment to comeback and the other big part are not agreeing with incarceration it all.
Imprisonment later changes into corrections in the mid-1950s because punishing and treating criminals became an industry. Before the 1950s there was
Hard labor was good for the prisoners because it helps them keeping them busy and it helps been productive making goods for sale and helping the prison’s operating cost. Knowing that criminals would finish their lives doing hard labor and receiving an unpleasant time in prison make people believe that justice system is working, and society does not want to end up doing that type of labor. By the Great depression of 1930s and through time after the WWII, the prison labor system decrease in big percentage. One of the main reasons of prison labor decreasing was the unemployment peak within the years and it became a national priority. The prisoners were taking jobs from the people in the outside who need it and it took a great effect back in the 1930s with the great