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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: severities; and whether their degraded and distressed condition does not reflect disgrace and criminality upon the State itself, or the community in which they are found. It is satisfactory to know, that the Philadelphia prison is the only one in America, in which the plan of absolute solitude has heen even thought of. The public feeling, Captain Basil Hall says, is decidedly opposed to this mode of treatment. Upon the whole, the Auburn system, which has been adopted under such admirable management, and with results so satisfactory, in the New York Penitentiary at Sing-sing, appears to combine more advantages with fewer defects than any other hitherto proposed. Among the causes which have led to the increase of crime in the United States, (although it does not appear that its increase has greatly exceeded in proportion that of the population, ) two are so conspicuous as to have attracted the particular attention of the American public. The first is, the degraded character of the people of colour, to which the Committee of the Boston Prison Discipline Society specifically advert as calling for legislative interference. It is, we are told, a fact, that about one-fourth of the total expense incurred in the United States for the support of criminal institutions, is occasioned by such convicts; a fact which speaks volumes in proof of the connexion of slavery with debasement and of ignorance with vice. The other cause (termed in a Report of the New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, the cause of causes ) is intemperance, chiefly in the use of ardent spirits. To this wide-spreading and growing mischief, the sober-minded part of the population Seventh Report of Prison Discipline.Society, p. 113. are fully alive. A Society for the promotion Of Temperance, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217972390 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021797239X |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 224 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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