Just Deserts Era (jan 1, 1995 – jan 1, 2012)

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"imprisonment is seen as a fully deserved and proper consequence of criminal and irresponsible behavior rather than just the end result of a bankrupt system unable to reform its charges. Unlike previous correctional eras, which layered other purposes on the correctional experience (the reformatory era, for example, was concerned with reformation, and the industrial era sought economic gain), the era of just deserts represented a kind of return to the root purpose of incarceration: punishment.

At the start of the just deserts era, state legislatures, encouraged in large part by their constituencies, scrambled to limit inmate privileges and to increase the pains of imprisonment." - Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century

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