The correct answer is A) prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal.
The view of prisons changed in the early-1800s in the United States in that prisons should focus their efforts on rehabilitating the criminal.
In the early 1800s, reformers and legislators in the United States, started to demand a change in the US prison system, in which the focus would not be in the punishment of the criminal but in the reformation or the rehabilitation to make it a member of the society once the criminal had spent their time in prison. In the mid-19th century, states such as Florida and North Carolina were the first to instill hard labor as part of the reformation in the prison system.