The history of Quaker involvement with prisons

Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee have deep roots in efforts to transform our criminal justice system, explains AFSC’s Laura Magnani. Transcript: Laura Magnani: If we’re talking about the overview, the history of solitary confinement, we need to go back to the very beginning, to the first penitentiary—which was intended to be a reform of the dungeon-style corporal punishments of the 1700s—which was based on a solitary confinement model, that people, if left