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True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
____ 1. The original legal punishments were typically banishment or slavery.
____ 2. Hulks were old ships that were used house prisoners in 18th century England.
____ 3. The first house of corrections was the Le Stinche in Florence.
____ 4. The "modern" American correctional system had its origins in New York.
____ 5. The Quakers pressured the state legislature to improve conditions in the prisons in Pennsylvania.
____ 6. The result of prison reform in Pennsylvania was the creation of a wing in Walnut Street Jail.
____ 7. The concept of parole was developed in America.
____ 8. Rehabilitation was a central focus of the early American parole system.
____ 9. Rehabilitation has come to replace incapacitation as the guiding philosophy in modern prisons.
____ 10. The rehabilitation movement of the 1960s was guided by the medical model.
____ 11. Advocates of the penal harm movement consider punishment for the sake of harming someone to be immoral.
____ 12. Half of jail detainees have not been convicted and are awaiting their trial.
____ 13. Approximately 50,000 juveniles are admitted to adult jails each year.
____ 14. Alcatraz is classified as a super-maximum-security prison.
____ 15. Inmates in prison forest camps fight forest fires and do reforestation work.
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Answer Section
TRUE/FALSE
1. ANS: T TOP: history of correctional institutions
2. ANS: T TOP: history of correctional institutions
3. ANS: F TOP: history of correctional institutions
4. ANS: F TOP: the origin of corrections in the U.S.
5. ANS: T TOP: the Pennsylvania system
6. ANS: T TOP: the Pennsylvania system
7. ANS: F TOP: the development of parole
8. ANS: T TOP: the development of parole
9. ANS: F TOP: the modern era
10. ANS: T TOP: the modern era
11. ANS: T TOP: penal harm movement
12. ANS: T TOP: jails
13. ANS: T TOP: who are jail inmates?
14. ANS: F TOP: types of prisons
15. ANS: T TOP: prison farms and camps