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future617RT · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

Discuss some of the first correctional institutions used prior to the penitentiary.

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Question 2

Discuss the punishments used during the Middle Ages.

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aadams68 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Some of the first correctional institutions were used during medieval period and were still in use during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Monastic confinement were prisons established by the Church in the Middle Ages for those involved in offensive acts, such as incest and magic.
Bridewells were houses of corrections run by local authorities to teach habits of industry to vagrants and idlers.
Houses of Corrections were workhouses where vagrants were forced to work to achieve the purpose of discipline and punishment.

Answer to Question 2

A number of punishments were used for criminals in medieval Europe. The most widely used were flogging and branding, torture, servitude as galley slaves, the gallows or other forms of execution, and banishment and transportation. The medieval punishment of flagellation was the act of whipping (Latin flagellum, whip) or flogging the human body with implements such as rods, switches, or the cat of nine tails.