This critique on the criminal justice system is going to focus on prisons. Prisons are institutions for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses. This paper is going to discuss the early history of prisons, early American prisons, goals of prisons, North Carolina prisons, and an overall overview of the prison system. History of Prisons Throughout history, most societies have built places in which to hold persons accused of criminal acts pending some form …showed first 75 words of 1907 total…

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