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History of Development of Prison

In the 16th-17th centuries, prisons housed debtors, accused people awaiting trial, and criminals serving sentences. Gradually, prisons became acceptable for punishing convicted criminals. Some believed solitary confinement could help prisoners reform. This led to systems like the separate, silent, and mark systems which isolated prisoners and incentivized good behavior with credits. In the 18th century, jails became long-term detention facilities. In the 19th century, leaders called for classifying and segregating inmates with customized treatment focusing on vocational training. The 20th century saw European corrections influenced by innovations from Ireland and America.

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History of Development of Prison

In the 16th-17th centuries, prisons housed debtors, accused people awaiting trial, and criminals serving sentences. Gradually, prisons became acceptable for punishing convicted criminals. Some believed solitary confinement could help prisoners reform. This led to systems like the separate, silent, and mark systems which isolated prisoners and incentivized good behavior with credits. In the 18th century, jails became long-term detention facilities. In the 19th century, leaders called for classifying and segregating inmates with customized treatment focusing on vocational training. The 20th century saw European corrections influenced by innovations from Ireland and America.

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In the 16th and 17th centuries, early prisons seem more like jails, wherein they

used this to house debtors who couldn't pay their bills, accused people awaiting trial,

and criminals awaiting the execution of their sentences (which may include death or

exile). Prisons became acceptable gradually, not merely as a means of detaining these

people, but also as a means of punishing convicted criminals. There were people who

believe that solitary confinement of the criminal would help them become penitent and it

would result to reformation. Due to this there were systems that arouse such as

separate system, silent system, and mark system. Separate system in which each

prisoner will remained in its cell working alone at trade and can never saw anyone

except the officers of the institution and occasional visitors. Silent system wherein

prisoners were prohibited to work together during the day and confined in their own cells

at night but must strictly keep silence all the time. Mark system, in this system prisoners

must earn marks or credits equivalent to how heavy their offenses is. In my perspective,

it is like a boarding school where students need not to misbehave to avoid demerit or

else. In this system prisoners can be release if required number of credits was obtained.

This system was developed, and inmates will be passed through three stages of

confinement before returning to civilian life. These were isolation, transferred to

intermediate prisons, and lastly release.

The jails of the eighteenth century were a little closer to what we have now. They

were long-term detention facilities for criminals who had been found guilty of a crime

and were serving time in prison. In 19 th century, the reformatory movement's leaders

called for the classification and segregation of different categories of inmates,

customized treatment stressing vocational training and industrial jobs, indefinite


sentences and prizes for good behavior, and parole or conditional release. In the

twentieth century, the Irish system and American innovations had a significant impact

on European correctional methods.

A prison's regulated atmosphere provides opportunity for criminals to be

rehabilitated through counseling, education, vocational training, and other means.

These arguments presume that the criminal's isolation is not offset by the risk of him

becoming more criminal while confined, and that the social and economic costs of

isolating the criminal from society are lower than those incurred if he were released. In

the modern sense, jails are a relic of the previous century.

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