Question

The conditions for juvenile inmates in the nineteenth century were often _____.


a. not monitored

b. worse than those of adults

c. the same as those of the adults

d. better than those of adults

Answer 1

Answer:

I believe it is C

Explanation:

In the late 18th and early 19th century, courts punished and confined youth in jails and penitentiaries. Since few other options existed, youth of all ages and genders were often indiscriminately confined with hardened adult criminals and the mentally ill in large overcrowded and decrepit penal institutions.