The punitive era (jun 13, 1935 – may 10, 1945)
Description:
The moratorium on free-market prison industries initiated by the Ashurst-Sumners Act was to last for more than half a century. Prison administrators, left with few ready alternatives, seized on custody and institutional security as the long-lost central purposes of the correctional enterprise. The punitive era that resulted was characterized by the belief that prisoners owed a debt to society that only a rigorous period of confinement could repay.Innovations were rare,and a philosophy of “out of sight, out of mind” characterized American attitudes toward inmates.
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Date:
jun 13, 1935
may 10, 1945
~ 9 years and 10 months