Quiz – You can use your notes Define the term Criminal Sanctions. Give an example of each of the following philosophies of punishment. Deterrence Incapacitation Retribution Rehabilitation Restorative Justice What is a presentencing investigation report? Give 2 pros and 2 cons of the death penalty.

Death Penalty – To be or not to be?

Jails & Prisons

Punishments of Colonial America Branding – mark or letter corresponding to the type of offense branded onto body Mutilation – cutting off body parts (ears or tongues) Pillory (stocks) – restraining device that forced offenders to endure pain in public

Ducking stool – forced into a body of water as entertainment for the community Flogging and Whipping – striking offender with an object typically on the back of soles of the feet Oldest and most common

Incarceration as Punishment Industrialization and growing populations led to a need for prisons Overcrowded cities became full of crime

American Jails & Prisons First institutions were for criminals awaiting trial Not very secure Abused and exploited prisoners Overcrowded State didn’t provide food or medicine

Auburn Prison New York Walled, maximum security Small cells Inside cell block – back to back cells stacked five tiers high Congregate work system – moved to eat and work Solitary confinement for worse inmates

Southern Penal System Convict lease system – supply farm labor Leased prisoners to private contractors Chain gang – prisoners shackled together to prevent escape Replaced by prison farm system in the 1930’s

In Pennsylvania “Penitentiaries” The idea of having a prison for incarceration started as a religious movement. They were called Penitentiaries because the criminals were serving their “Penance”. The goal was to reform souls.

Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia PA

Al Capone’s Cell The Hilton of Prisons! Each had a separate cell Skylights Had heating and cooling A faucet (when the white house had none) Toilets that were flushed twice a week Garden for each prisoner Al Capone’s Cell

Treatment of prisoners Silent system Complete isolation Prisoners were prohibited from speaking to others. Heads were covered when moving from the cell. Food was slid in through a small slot in the door.

Thrown into solitude. [the prisoner] reflects Thrown into solitude... [the prisoner] reflects. Placed alone, in view of his crime, he learns to hate it; and if his soul be not yet surfeited with crime, and thus have lost all taste for any thing better, it is in solitude, where remorse will come to assail him.... Can there be a combination more powerful for reformation than that of a prison which hands over the prisoner to all the trials of solitude, leads him through reflection to remorse, through religion to hope…"

Prisons Today Get a text book Read pgs. 383 – 399 Answer the question on the guided reading worksheet and turn in when finished.