1. 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.

2. Death Penalty – To be or not to be?

3. Jails & Prisons

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

10. 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

12. 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.

13. Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia PA

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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…"

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