Chapter 3

Question 1

Industrial prisons were an evolution of ______.

Answer 1

The contract and lease model

Question 2

Auburn Prison was built to hold inmates in complete solitary confinement, with no labor, for the full span of their sentence.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The practice of solitary confinement in prison cells was abandoned in the New York model because it hampered the efficient production of goods.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Zebulon Brockway was appointed head of which institution?

Answer 4

Elimira Reformatory

Question 5

Pentonville Prison was modelled after Sing Sing Prison.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

What is a fortress of stone or concrete, usually maximum security, whose attributes include isolation, routine, and monotony?

Answer 6

Big house prison

Question 7

Penitence was the main philosophy of Walnut Street Jail.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Beaumont and Tocqueville supported the practice of maintaining the solitude of inmates at night and silence during the day.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The New York system was known as the separate system.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Which system was commonly used in the southern states?

Answer 10

Lease

Question 11

Eastern Pennsylvania Prison was the first prison to incorporate hot water and flush toilets into the individual cells.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Prisons were seldom used before the Civil War in the northern states.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Dorothea Dix believed that, although the prisons were overcrowded, they had good leadership.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

The Declaration of Principles was drafted by ______.

Answer 14

Dorothy Dix

Question 15

The American Prison Congress convened in 1901.

Answer 15

False