CJA 234 Prison Comparison Contrast Paper
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Prison Comparison Contrast Paper
Prison Comparison Contrast Paper
CJA 234
Prison Comparison Contrast Paper
Today prisons are viewed to be instruments of punishment with the loss of freedom that is considered as a result of society's retribution for the crimes the offenders have committed. However, incarceration was not always this form of punishment, in the 18th century different types of corporal punishment that involved infliction of pain on the human body. Corporal punishments included whipping, beating, branding, mutilation, and other types of physical punishments. Most punishments during the eighteenth-century were held in public. Executions were elaborate and shocking affairs, designed to act as a deterrent to those who watched. The 1700s were considered the colonial period and no...