How did the view of prisons change in the early-1800s in the united states?

prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal.
prisons are outdated and should be eliminated.
prisons should be controlled by the federal government.
prisons should focus their efforts on punishing the criminal.

The correct answer is A) prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal.

The view of prisons changed in the early-1800s in the United States in that prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal.

In the early 1800s, reformers and legislators in the United States, started to demand a change in the US prison system, in which the focus would not be in the punishment of the criminal but in the reformation or the rehabilitation to make it a member of the society once the criminal had spent their time in prison. In the mid-19th century, states such as Florida and North Carolina were the first to instill hard labor as part of the reformation in the prison system.

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