ABSTRACT
Lowlier offenders were detained in prison only while awaiting trial. In colonial America, as in Europe, the standard punishment for the pickpocket, the thief, the highwayman was hanging; for lesser offenders mutilation, the stocks, public brandings and floggings. The movement for prison reform developed almost simultaneously with the prison itself. Across the hall some of the Treatment and Research people are in session in a panel of the American Association of Correctional Psychologists Committee on Personnel Standards and Training. True, things were moving slowly but the prison board, in spite of the fact half of them were against anything Rockefeller did, accepted Mr. MacCormick’s report, abolished flogging, endorsed educational programs. Then Tom Murton went before Senator Dodd’s committee, filled the caucus room with pictures, brought a fascimile of the “Tucker telephone.”
