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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... no other foundation than experience, they cannot be more certain than the evidence on which it rests, and may of course be countervailed by the like evidence. This consideration is peculiarly important with reference to sciences, which, like that of prison discipline, are yet in their infancy. For where our knowledge is very extensive, so that our deductions are supported by long, varied and uniform experience, we act on them with as much confidence as if they had the certainty of mathematical demonstration; though this they can never acquire, nor can they for a moment be maintained in opposition to a single well-established fact. The mischievous consequences, which have resulted, in this country, from an unyielding adherence to hasty opinions on this subject are so remarkable, and tend so fully to illustrate the origin, history and present condition of this new science among us, as well as to guide our future investigations; that it may be instructive to present a brief sketch of the progress of opinion and of improvement here in relation to it. The first persevering and efficient efforts in America to reform the whole system of prison discipline were made by "The Philadelphia Society for relieving the miseries of public prisons," established in 1787. The statements made of the condition of the prison in Philadelphia at that time are such, that if they were not supported by high, uniform and uncontradicted authority, it would be impossible for us at this day to believe them. It is represented as a scene of promiscuous and unrestricted intercourse, and universal riot and debauchery. There was no labor, no separation of those accused, but yet untried, nor even of those confined for debt only, from convicts sentenced for the foulest crimes; no separation of color, ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150426940
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150426942
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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