1st Quiz Flashcards
only early Roman place of confinement which is built under the main sewer of Rome in 64 B.C
Mammertine prison
9 fortress that was built on the rocky islet of If, 2 miles off the French port of Marseilles.
In 1580 it was taken into use as a state prison for those convicted of serious political and religious crimes.
CHATEAU D’LF (Shat o-deef ) 1524
The most popular workhouse in London which was built for the employment of English Prisons.
Bridwell Workhouse
a house of correction in Ghent, Belgium which separate adult from juveniles and women from men,
it is an innovation to prison system during the 1600s.
MAISON DE FORCE
It was established in 1873 as the first adult female correctional facility in the country.
As of 2005 it had an average daily population of 420 inmates, most of whom are members of special-needs populations, such as geriatric, mentally ill, pregnant, and juveniles sentenced as adults.
Security levels range from medium to maximum.
The prison holds Indiana’s only death row for women; however, no Indiana woman is currently sentenced to
death
Indiana women’s prison
Prison divided into cells and first established in the year 1704 at the Hospital of St. Michael during the reign of Pope Clement XI; prototype of reformatories for juvenile offenders.
Hospicio De San Michelle
originally constructed as a detention jail in Philadelphia. It was converted into a state prison.
Became the first American Penitentiary.
Walnut Street Jail
the most notorious prison in the world in terms of the harshness of its regime and position.
Devil’s island (Isle du Diable)
It was built for the military in the 1850’s and used by them, as a fort and a prison.
1850 the prison is located on an island in San Francisco Bay.
It became a civil prison until it was closed in 1963.
Alcatraz or The Rock
Jeremy Bentham was founder of the British Utilitarianism movement
which suggested that laws should be evaluated to ensure that they are ethical and useful.
Inspection house (Panopticon)
Cell block architectural design to avoid contact with other prisoners. Imposes solitary confinement and severe discipline Inmates are on contract- convict lease system with work lasting for 10 hours per day and 6 days per week.
Auburn prison 1821
Inflicted aside from floggings, denial of reading materials and solitary confinement.
The shower bath was a gadget so constructed as to drop a volume of water on the head of a locked naked
offender.
The force of icy cold water hitting the head of the offender caused so much pain and extreme shock that
prisoners immediately sank into coma due to the shock and hypothermia or sudden drop in body temperature.
Sing sing prison
It is where the inmates are required to read the bible each day and not allowed to go out.
Pennsylvania system
Inmates wore hoods when marching to their cells to avoid seeing other prisoners.
Regimentation included lockstep and single file marching with head turned right
No visitors and mail or
newspapers were allowed
Eastern state penitentiary
The prison system called the “Congregate system”.
The prisoners are confined in their own cells during the night and congregate work in shops during the day.
Complete silence was enforced.
The auburn prison system
The prison system called the “Solitary System”
Prisoners are confined in single cells day and night where they lived, slept, ate, and receive religious
instructions.
Complete silence was also enforced.
They are required to read the Bible
The Pennsylvania prison system
productive works
Hard labor
deprivation of everything except the bare essentials of existence
Deprivation
