Before confinement was implemented as a form of punishment, offenders were punished more for embarrassment and humiliation. Not only for punishment for the crime, it was to humiliate them and deter other offenders. Punishment was directed toward the person and property, it was to inflict pain and confiscate property. Corporal punishment forms were in the form of fines, beheading, flogging, branding, placed in stocks, hanging and stoning. …show more content…
The other is transportation, this is the where they are taken to another colony to live. These two forms of punishment were put in place before confinement.
Europeans started using confinement as a means of punishment by using offenders in workhouses, to teach them discipline and work habits. Their labor was expected to pay for the upkeep of the facility and also earned a profit (Bohm and Haley,