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    Phoenix Abstract: Based on the ideals of a penitentiary‚ what it should be like? What was the principal goal of a penitentiary? What were the differences between the two prison models? What were the benefits and drawbacks of each model? Which model was considered to be the winning model? There are two types of buildings that help keep people in line. One is the jail cell‚ the other is the penitentiary. A jail is almost for short term offenders whilst a penitentiary is for those who are repeat offenders

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    Penitentiary Ideal and Models of the American Prison A penitentiary is defined as a public institution where offenders of the law are to be confined for detention or punishment. Prisons prior to the 1800s were filthy‚ unsanitary‚ and often struck with disease. Physical punishments included beatings‚ whippings‚ and death by hanging. Prison inmates were often malnutritioned and underfed. Early advocates of the penitentiary considered these punishments and conditions to be inhumane and set out

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    Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison When the word “Penitentiary” comes to the forefront of one’s mind; it is thought of as a place of friendless imprisonment and punishment for crimes committed. There is a completely different perception of what we envision today when we think of what a “penitentiary”

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    Penitentiaries‚ A problem or Solution: Flanner O’Conner’ “a good man is hard to find” In “a good man is hard to find” we all see misfit as a bad guy. Who is “a loose from federal pen” (O’Conner 1)‚ kills his father (O’Conner 9)‚ and is a murderer. But during his conversation with the grandmother he says “I never was a bad boy” (0’conner 9). He also mentions “[he] forget what [he] did” (O’Conner 9). After reading the whole story and studying about the

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    Purpose and history of penitentiaries Name Date CJA/234 Professor History of Punishment History of punishment exists since of thousands of years. Though‚ it is very tough to decide when exactly human civilization started punishment system. There are some records to support the start of punishment system. The earliest legal code may have been that of Ur-Nammu‚ Founder of third dynasty of Ur at about 2050 BC. In this legal code actually a person will have to pay for something he does wrong

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    contrast the Pennsylvania and New York Penitentiary theories of the 1800’s."  The Pennsylvania System‚ after the failure of Walnut Street‚ Pennsylvania constructed two new prisons: the Western Penitentiary near Pittsburgh (opened in 1826) and the Eastern Penitentiary in Cherry Hill‚ near Philadelphia (1829). The Pennsylvania system took the concept of silence as a virtue to new extremes. Based on the idea of separate confinement‚ these penitentiaries were constructed with back-to-back cells

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    Running head: EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY 1 Eastern State Penitentiary Name Institution Eastern State Penitentiary I think that a prisoner in the Eastern State Penitentiary has the dullest daily routine that any human could ever have. Picture a prisoner living behind a cell with a heavy dungeon-door and thick walls. Literally‚ speaking‚ the daily routine revolves around the cell. As…notes‚ a prisoner "is led to the cell from which he never again comes forth‚ until his whole term of imprisonment

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    Twentieth Century Penitentiary System Deidria Davis Axia College of University of Phoenix Instructor: According to the timeline given by Eastern State Historical website virtually all prisons designed in the nineteenth century‚ worldwide‚ were based on one of two systems: New York State ’s Auburn System‚ and the Pennsylvania System these models influence today’s penitentiary system to this day. During the next hundred years following Eastern State ’s construction‚ more than 300

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    orld zA World Apart 1 A World Apart Farrah Anglada-Lauer Axia College of University of Phoenix 2 The first penitentiary was opened in a wing of the Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Jail in 1790. This penitentiary operated with the belief that silence and labor was the appropriate rehabilitation tactic. “A system of behavior modification was introduced in the Walnut Street Prison‚ the system of secondary reinforcement so widely used in today ’s prisons. Each prisoner was given fair pay for his/her

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