When was jail created

All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. There shall be no discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

It is, however, desirable to respect the religious beliefs and cultural precepts of the group to which prisoners belong, whenever local conditions so require. The responsibility of prisons for the custody of prisoners and for the protection of society against crime shall be discharged in keeping with a State's other social objectives and its fundamental responsibilities for promoting the well-being and development of all members of society.

Except for those limitations that are demonstrably necessitated by the fact of incarceration, all prisoners shall retain the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and, where the State concerned is a party, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as such other rights as are set out in other United Nations covenants.

All prisoners shall have the right to take part in cultural activities and education aimed at the full development of the human personality. These policies include mental examinations, educational programs and sometimes even far more drastic measures such as electroshock therapy.

An opposing viewpoint to the rehabilitative effects of imprisonment claims that being incarcerated will actually cause people to become even more involved with a life of crime, because they become so enveloped in a criminal society while living with other inmates. Regardless of these conflicting opinions on rehabilitation of criminals, imprisonment continues to be one of the most common forms of punishment around the world. Twitter Facebook Instagram Youtube.

Back to Crime Library. Search Submit. Hutto did such a good job in Texas that Arkansas would hire him to run their entire prison system—made entirely of plantations—which he would run at a profit to the state. His ability to run a prison that put money into state coffers would later attract the attention of two businessmen with a new idea: to found a corporation that would run prisons and sell shares on the stock market.

Prisons had been privatized before. Louisiana first privatized its penitentiary in , just nine years after it opened. The company, McHatton, Pratt, and Ward ran it as a factory, using inmates to produce cheap clothes for enslaved people.

Instead, they deal almost exclusively with the profitability of the prison. Like private prisons today, profit rather than rehabilitation was the guiding principle of early penitentiaries throughout the South.

It quickly became the main Southern supplier of textiles west of the Mississippi. Prison privatization accelerated after the Civil War. Former slaveholders built empires that were bigger than those of most slave owners before the war. Lessees went to extreme lengths to extract profits. When they died from exhaustion or disease, he sold their bodies to the Medical School at Nashville for students to practice on. Companies liked using convicts in part because, unlike free workers, they could be driven by torture.

Whipping was common. An Alabama government inspection showed that in a two-week period in , prisoners were flogged. Lessees gave a cut of the profits to the states, ensuring that the system would endure.