UMD CCJS100 – Exam 3 Review: Courts, Corrections,
and Due Process
Penitentiary Act of 1779 - correct answer ✔✔called for the creation of a house of hard labor
where offenders would be imprisoned for up to two years
new goal of penal system was to make the person good
Penitentiary Act of 1779 Principles - correct answer ✔✔1. Secure and sanitary building
2. inspection to ensure offenders followed rules
3. Abolition of fees that charged prisoners for food
4. A reformatory regime
Enlightenment period - correct answer ✔✔18th century European movement in which thinkers
attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of life. Also
known as Age of Reason.
Physical punishment started to loose its popularity
The Pennsylvania System (1790)
[separate confinement] - correct answer ✔✔A system of prison administration in which inmates
lived in solitary confinement, total silence, and religious penitence as the way to prevent future
criminal behavior. They could reflect on their misdeeds, & perform handicraft work.
"Separate Confinement" no contact with other offenders
The New York System
, [congregate system] - correct answer ✔✔prisoner is held in solitary at night but worked with
others during the day under the rule of silence.
Jail v Prison - correct answer ✔✔JAIL
-operated at the state, county or municipal level
-house individuals awaiting trial and those serving short sentences
PRISON
- longer-term facilities run by the state or the federal government that typically holds felons and
persons with sentences of more than one year
Federal v State Prisons - correct answer ✔✔FEDERAL
-operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons
-house individuals convicted under federal law.
- Hold 80% of federal offenders
- inmates/facilities classified by level (1-5)
STATE
-operated by state governments
-house individuals convicted under state law
Prisons for Women - correct answer ✔✔- Initially women were held in the same facilities as
men
Women's Prison Association [1844]
- separated the men and women prisoners
- provide care in keeping with the needs of women
and Due Process
Penitentiary Act of 1779 - correct answer ✔✔called for the creation of a house of hard labor
where offenders would be imprisoned for up to two years
new goal of penal system was to make the person good
Penitentiary Act of 1779 Principles - correct answer ✔✔1. Secure and sanitary building
2. inspection to ensure offenders followed rules
3. Abolition of fees that charged prisoners for food
4. A reformatory regime
Enlightenment period - correct answer ✔✔18th century European movement in which thinkers
attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of life. Also
known as Age of Reason.
Physical punishment started to loose its popularity
The Pennsylvania System (1790)
[separate confinement] - correct answer ✔✔A system of prison administration in which inmates
lived in solitary confinement, total silence, and religious penitence as the way to prevent future
criminal behavior. They could reflect on their misdeeds, & perform handicraft work.
"Separate Confinement" no contact with other offenders
The New York System
, [congregate system] - correct answer ✔✔prisoner is held in solitary at night but worked with
others during the day under the rule of silence.
Jail v Prison - correct answer ✔✔JAIL
-operated at the state, county or municipal level
-house individuals awaiting trial and those serving short sentences
PRISON
- longer-term facilities run by the state or the federal government that typically holds felons and
persons with sentences of more than one year
Federal v State Prisons - correct answer ✔✔FEDERAL
-operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons
-house individuals convicted under federal law.
- Hold 80% of federal offenders
- inmates/facilities classified by level (1-5)
STATE
-operated by state governments
-house individuals convicted under state law
Prisons for Women - correct answer ✔✔- Initially women were held in the same facilities as
men
Women's Prison Association [1844]
- separated the men and women prisoners
- provide care in keeping with the needs of women
