Concept information
Preferred term
history of prisons
Definition
- The presence of prisons is well documented in the annals of ancient history, mentioned in Greek philosophy, biblical sources, and the laws of Rome. The dominant forms of punishment in early times were execution, exile, fines, and the confiscation of property, and for debt, confinement until payment and debt bondage. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; History of Prisons]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Alcatraz
- Alexander Maconochie
- Attica
- Auburn system
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
- Bridewell Prison and Workhouse
- Cesare Beccaria
- convict lease system
- Crofton system
- dorothea dix
- Elmira Reformatory
- history of correctional officers
- history of religion in prison
- history of women's prisons
- Jeremy Bentham
- josephine shaw lowell
- juvenile reformatories
- Katharine Bement Davis
- labor
- mabel walker willebrant
- massachusetts reformatory
- medical experiments
- panopticon
- Parchman Farm Penitentiary
- pennsylvania prison society
- pennsylvania system
- plantation prisons
- prison ships
- slavery
- Zebulon Reed Brockway
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/history_of_prisons
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