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Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926), American reformer, helped advance public understanding of prison problems an… Correctional Institutions , REFORMATORIES are penal institutions meant to "reform" or "rehabilitate" the persons assigned to them. The difference between reformatories and priso… Prison , Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century monasteries and fortresses often served as prisons (tyurma from German turm = tower). The Russian priso… Alternate , al·ter·nate • v. / ˈôltərˌnāt/ [intr.] occur in turn repeatedly: the governorship alternated between the Republican and Democratic parties. ∎ [tr.] d… Corrections , Penology, an applied field of sociology, is the theoretical study of prison policy, prison management, and the resulting prison culture. The sociolog…
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