The first prison in America

In America, the concept of imprisonment came to an end result. It was encouraged by religious beliefs, the English Quaker William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, abolished the death penalty for most crimes in the late 1600s, by doing this it was substituted by imprisonment as a punishment. The Walnut Street Gaol, in Philadelphia is considered the first prison in the U.S.



Auburn state prison system of New York came into play in 1817. The Auburn system allowed the prisoners to work together in silence and they slept separate anyone who violated these rules could get some type of strict discipline. The Pennsylvania system in the Eastern Prison located at Cherry Hill in 1829 was based on solitary confinement day and night.