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Origins of American Corrections

Each of the following sites provides a different insight into the origins of American corrections.
  • What did you learn about the history of the U.S. corrections system?
  • How can we learn from the past?
History and pictures of Auburn Prison where the "Auburn system" was developed.
http://www.co.cayuga.ny.us/history/cayugahistory/prison.html

History of the chain gang
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/archive/fall96/lichtens.html

Popular 1932 film purporting to expose conditions on southern chain gangs.
http://www.filmsite.org/iama.html

Jail Conditions

  • How are jails different than prisons?
  • What are the alternatives to jail?
  • Are jails become safer or more dangerous?
Census of Jails 1993-94.
http://mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/GOVPUBS/jails1.html

Profile of jail inmates.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pji96.htm

Survey of jail administrators.
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/jailadmn.txt

The New York City Department of Corrections and a history of New York City jails.
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doc/home.html

A report on the New York City Jails.
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doc/html/commprog.html

Another major issue is overcrowding. This site suggests methods to address overcrowding.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/GovPubs/JLCROWD.HTM





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