1)What types of criminal punishments were used before the advent of imprisonment as a criminal sanction? How have early punishments influenced modern correctional philosophy? 2) What are today's prison like? 3) What purposes do prison serve? 4) What is the role of a private prison today? 5) What are some of the issues that jail administrators currently face?

The type of criminal punishment used before prisons were made were various measures adopted by different society but that which was prominent among these societies were exile(where someone is banished from an environment and sent far away with no promises of them returning), flogging, public humiliation.

Explanation:

1) The type of criminal punishment used before prisons were made were various measures adopted by different society but that which was prominent among these societies were exile(where someone is banished from an environment and sent far away with no promises of them returning), flogging, public humiliation.

These punishment's have influenced the modern day of philosophy by not making us know how people are really punished.

2) Today's prison are buildings which are fenced and well secured against the prisoners escaping, having guards guide them always.

3) Prisons serve the purpose of excluding criminals from the society, so residents of society would know that their is a result for bad behavior.

4) Private prison are used to administer to special cases, either highly criminal or special for a particular reason.

5) They are a few of them; they are being harmed by prisoners, they are faced with being antisocial due to they spend most of their time in prisons, especially when there is no shift or rotation of staff

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.