2 Development Of Prisons

Question 1

Convict service 1850 led to the…

Answer 1

Beginnings of transferring control of prisons to home office

Question 2

Full centralisation occurred:

Answer 2

Prison Act 1877

Question 3

State control and centralisation occurred via the

Answer 3

Gladstone Report 1895

Question 4

Gladstone Report 1895 stated that

Answer 4

Imprisonment should result in deterrence and reformation

Formalised in the 1898 Prisons Act

Question 5

(1900s) WW2 =

Answer 5

Overcrowding issue

Question 6

(1900s) 1950s onwards =

Answer 6

Rising crime

Public concern

Security crises

Question 7

(1900s) Great Train Robbers escaped (Ronald Biggs) + number of riots =

Answer 7

Categorisation of prisons according to ‘security’

+

Therapeutic prisons built

Question 8

(1900s) hospitals [NHS run] =

Answer 8

Broadmoor

Rampton

Question 9

(1900s) privatisation from 1990 onwards - now…

Answer 9

14 privately managed prisons:

Sodexo
Serco
G4S

Question 10

(1900s) 2004 - NOMS supervise prisons and probation - shift from home office to…

Answer 10

Ministry of Justice

Question 11

Design =

Answer 11

Borrowed from US models

Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’

Solitary confinement (morally beneficial, reflection - than hard labour)