The Pros And Cons Of The Pennsylvania System Vs Auburn System

William Penn wanted his colony of Pennsylvania to be a place for religious freedom. He did not want a focus on religion to be the main criteria for his government. “Penn’s Frame of Government prohibited swearing, drunkenness, and adultery, as well as popular entertainments…(Foner, 97).” Meaning that he focused more on public morality than religious morality. Many seeking religious freedom to practice would come to Pennsylvania. During the first years of settlers in the colonies, life in the New England colonies was a struggle compared the southern colonies. Many farmers couldn’t grow much food and farmers were having a difficult time finding a stable product like sugar or tobacco(page 80). The southern colonies had found their marketable product and had gained more economically than the northern colonies. With labor costs low due to indentured servants and slaves, the southern colonies flourished.  Ira Berlin calls this generation of slaves the charter generation. The colonies needed labor but did not depend on slaves, it was a society with slaves not a slave society. Since New England was behind on finding a stable crop slaves and

Pennsylvania was founded on the basis of equality and justice. William Penn, proprietor of this colony, was a Quaker who strived to build a religiously free colony, where anybody who had monotheistic beliefs was free to come—even if they were not deeply religious. Their goal was

The U.S. prison systems has evolved greatly in the pasts centuries in many ways, but the most critical part where it greatly improved was the security of the facilities, the inmate treatment, and the construction of the building of how stable it is.The first and most important is the security. A prison system has to have a strict security system because without it prisoners can do whatever they want. So, they developed a security system where there are five levels: the higher the level is the stronger it is. Not all prisons do the same security because different buildings mean different levels. Prison cells have changed in the past couple years to withstand rust or mold from disturbing or breaking the iron bars. The second most important improvement was the treatment of inmates/prisoners. The prisoners have changed a lot in the past century or so because they have developed a new way for entertainment or pleasure. That was sexual humiliation of what the prisoners did to each other. Other than pleasure they have gotten more dangerous because in prison, criminals have records that have skulls or stars that show how dangerous they are. The more skulls, the more dangerous a prisoner is. Since criminals have gotten more dangerous the guards’ weapons have gotten more advanced with stun guns, dogs, or batons. The third and final important point in the prison system is how strong the building is. The building is larger so they can put more prisoners; the bigger the building, the harder it is to escape. The bigger the better but it wouldn’t matter because it depends on how strong the buildings is. So they made the buildings mold, rust and physical resistance from the inside or outside. Other improvements they have made is non-combustible concrete walls, roofs and floors that do not produce smoke or toxic fumes which prevents anything from happening in or outside of the building. The U.S. prisons have developed a lot in the century in security system, inmate treatment, and

William Penn, the Quaker entrepreneur and philosopher born in London, had the vision to create the Quaker founded colony of Pennsylvania. Quakerism, or better known as the Society of Friends to the members of the group, settled in what is now Pennsylvania around 1681 from a land grant given to Penn. Many left the British Isles to settle on this grant, the majority at first being the Quakers. Then, in 1682, he gave his Charter of Liberty to the assembly. This would designate the structure of this colony. William Penn’s creation of the colony was unlike any other colony in the New World at the time, as he would set it apart.

Halfway through the 18th century, the United States was serving as a model for prisons. Dix was revolutionary in reforming prisons. She convinced states to invest in libraries, basic education, and more care for the men, women, and even children imprisoned in the jails and penitentiaries whereas abuse regularly occurred (Parry). Pennsylvania was a key role model for prisons all over the United States. This state’s prisons were known for having “two of the best prisons in the world” (“Prison and Asylum

From healthcare to personal safety, inmates are suffering illnesses, abuse, excessive sentences, and maltreatment at an astronomical rate. There has been a vast debate on the issue. There are many arguments for lesser prison sentences and better prison conditions. Mass Incarceration on Trial, A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America, written by Jonathan Simon, illustrates how our nation has become far removed from treating prisoners as human beings who deserving dignity and our nation has failed to properly address this grossly flawed prison system; particularly California.

In the late 17th and most of the 18th century, the colonies of Pennsylvania and New England were founded. Pennsylvania was the last English colony to be established. Founded in 1681 by William Penn who was in search for a haven in the New World for the Quakers, who were members of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement that was devoted to peaceful principles. These principles of Quakers' belief have a direct correlation to Christ's working in the soul. Due to the unpopularity of the religion Quakers were persecuted in England. When the Quakers arrived in the new world, William Penn assigned his cousin William Markham as deputy governor to take control over Pennsylvania while he was in England trying to establish a refuge for

Standing on the hill overlooking the colorado river is the well known Territorial Prison, located in Yuma Arizona.The prison was built in yuma because there was no other prison to keep criminals behind bars also because other prisons were easy to escape from. In 1875 the prison was authorized by the legislature, its budget for the project was 25,000.The prison is now a historic park where people can visit and experience the prisoners life’s within the dark walls as they serve their time. The yuma territorial prison was the first state penitentiary in Arizona. In this research paper I will look into the territorial prison, also have vivid descriptions on its history and background from my primary sources.

In other words, inmates were compelled to obey correctional managers and their staff. Inmates were put to work building roads, railroads, and even manufacturing wagons, shoes, and boots. In order for the contractors to protect their profit margins, they would transport inmates in rolling cages, where they lived. This way, the state would make a profit and could actually avoid the cost of building additional facilities, hiring correctional staff, feeding and clothing inmates, and assuming care. In reality, prisons became attractive profit

Having studied the history of prison systems of Pennsylvania and New York tell us that the prisoners were in more isolation in Pennsylvania then those serving time in New York prison system. In Pennsylvania the inmates worked, ate, slept alone. However, in New York prison system the inmates worked, and ate together.

The prison system has evolved over time now that the truth from the past has been exposed. What caused the prison to become brutal was from the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. Before the approval of the amendment, many prisons considered the idea of rehabilitation, or allowing convicted criminals to work and rebuild themselves into better people and citizens, but many believed that prisoners should be punished. When the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, it only ceased chattel slavery. Slavery was legal only for punishment purposes in prison. Since it was legal for punishment purposes, the states began convicting slaves and other people for crimes to have a “supply of cheap labor” (p. xii). Whenever the state needed work done or if money was needed, police would go out and gather slaves. The conditions they were in during their prison sentence was so harsh that many only lived up to 2 years. Many convicted slaves were innocent, but that did not matter. African Americans were not open to obtaining a normal and free life as they were vulnerable. The Thirteenth Amendment basically kept them under control instead of receiving the freedom they deserved. The Thirteenth Amendment resulted a negative effect upon the American

Today I will be doing my Phase 3 Individual Project I will fully be addressing a case totally based on the Estelle V. Gamble prison case. The Estelle V. Gamble case brings about a lot of controversial comments and thought by the American citizens living in the United States because it definitely shows you a big problem in our correctional facilities in the United States. This case made it more then obvious that our correctional facilities needed some work to be done to in the way they responded to inmate medical needs. Well enough of me trying to bable away lets get to the real story and see for yourself in you agree with the Texas Department of Corrections or are you in favor of what the United

The Texas prison systems have many pros and cons that can be easily observed. A beneficial thing about the prison system is that they provide an added level of protection for the public. Every single day there are a variety amounts of criminals who are incarcerated to not only serve their time but to also keep them all under one roof so that they cause no harm to the public. The crime rate in Texas has risen up; from un-resolved homicides to sexual assaults; therefore, when they are incarcerated they will be locked up and the public’s safety will be at ease. Another factor that contributes to the pros of the Texas prison system is the satisfaction that the interests of the victim’s family and members of the public are happy with the result

In today's society more and more violence is occurring each and everyday. With the increase of violence, the inmate population grows and locations of incarcerating inmates are rising as well. In his article, Private prisons, career correctional administrator and academic, Richard P. Seiter argues that the private corrections care about the well being of inmate not about making profit off the enormous populus incarcerated.

The prior incentives, now eliminated, provided opportunities for transfers to minimum security prisons, and as a result of their dissolution, the prison population began to skyrocket. The perceived conditions of the prisons began to worsen as a result of the overcrowding. In the early 1970’s, one cellblock housed the prison's disciplinary cases and its protection cases, containing about fifty inmates. Those fifty represented around five percent of the total prison population. In 1976, over twenty percent of the inmates were either in protective custody or in segregated units, forcing the utilization of two cell blocks. Each block had a capacity of 90 inmates, but held as many as 200 inmates. (Useem, 1982) It was no wonder the new administration began reporting a new “breed” of high profile inmates entering the