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1.
What
are the contributions to the Parole system in Europe of these prominent persons,
as to wit;
a. Alexander Maconochie
In 1840, Maconochie became the Governor of Norfolk Island, a prison island in which
convicts were treated with severe brutality and were seen as lost causes. Upon
reaching the island, Maconochie immediately instituted policies that restored
dignity to prisoners and achieved remarkable success in prisoner rehabilitation.
Those policies were well in advance of their time, but Maconochie was politically
undermined.
His ideas would be largely ignored and forgotten, only to be readopted as the basis
of modern penal systems over a century later, during the mid-to-late 20th century.
He was also the first professor of Geography at the University College London.
b.
Zebulon R. Brockway
Zebulon Reed Brockway, who established the Elmira prison program, served in prison
reform for fifty years. He constructed a coherent structure for prison education as
offering varied kinds of instruction and as framed by secular rather than religious
views. Brockway's Elmira model yielded strong results for inmates.
c.
Sir Walter Crofton
in the mid-19th century by Sir Walter Crofton, the director of Irish prisons. In
his program, known as the Irish system, prisoners progressed through three stages
of confinement before they were returned to civilian life. The first portion of the
sentence was served in isolation.
2. How can the Indeterminate Sentence Law help the government to facilitate the
rehabilitation of convicted offenders?