However I wanted to work overtime, they realized they couldn't keep everything under control. So they started using solitary confinement to punish people who had done something they thought was wrong. The penitentiary was built to make prisoners show repentance or remorse. It was not built to punish, but was rather used as a form of public humiliation. The hospital inside the prison was one of the largest at the time. The doctors were so skilled that even the staff who worked in the prisons had themselves evaluated there. The fact that there were many activities that inmates could participate in tells me that they were not punished once in prison. The idea was that they would pay time for their crimes, and only if they did something against the prison rules would they be isolated. In the early 1800s they were unable to understand the harsh effects of isolating individuals for long periods of time. Finally, the fact that there was no use in life imprisonment demonstrates that they were destined to be rehabilitated and not