RT Article
T1 Jails in the Early American Republic: Transcarceration, Decarceration, and Rabble Management
JF The prison journal
VO 97
IS 1
SP 118
OP 139
A1 Tillotson, Stephen E.
A2 Colanese, Jennifer A.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741702380
AB Recent state-level penal policy reforms have the potential to shift the burden of incarceration to local jails. We argue that such transcarceration is not a new phenomenon, but rather, is a persistent aspect of incarceration in the United States. In this article, we provide an historical analysis of jails in the Early American Republic (1790-1850), including their role expansion to include felon and misdemeanant incarceration, their role contraction alongside the development of institutions for various special populations, and their enduring function as a site of “rabble” management.
K1 Jails
K1 U.S. correctional history
K1 Transcarceration
DO 10.1177/0032885516679401