In the nineteenth century growing towns and cities had a drastic increase in crime. The European states thought the presence of paid, professionally trained law enforcement officers charged with keeping order, protecting property and lives, investigating crime, and apprehending offenders would deter any criminals. The prisoners were able to socialize during the day, but at night the prisoners would be separated and locked in individual cells. In the little cells many inmates got diseases and some even died. The prisons in this era changed because at the beginning of the nineteenth century reformers exposed the horrendous conditions in prison and demand immediate