...Ib. page 220. DICKENS'S OPINION OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, OR TI1K NEW PENITENTIARY IN PHILADELPHIA. "In the -outskirts stands a great Prison, called the...Pennsylvania. The system here is rigid, strict, and liopsless solitary confinement I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. u In its intention,...

...great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days , than doing now. In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the...believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. ID its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am...

...great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to bo done one of these days, than doing now. In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. 1 believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it...

...proceeds : — " In the outskirts stands " a great prison, called the Eastern Penitentiary, constructed " on a plan peculiar to the State of Pennsylvania. The...it, in " its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, I am well " convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; " but I am persuaded...

...Eastern Penitentiary, constructed on a plan peculiar to the State of Pennsylvania. The system hero is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement....it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, 1 am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am persuaded...

...great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days, than doing now. In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the...reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this sytem of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know...

...great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days, than doing now. In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. 1 believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it...

...great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to he done one of these days, than doing now. In the outskirts stands a great prison, called the...Penitentiary, conducted on a plan peculiar to the State of Peunsylvania. The system here is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I helieve it, in...

...Charles Dickens carefully studied the prison system of Pennsylvania here, and characterised it as " rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement....believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong." The worst features of this system have since been removed by modifications, since solitary confinement...

...grievance was largely founded on sentimentality and purely personal feeling. He describes his visit: "In the outskirts stands a great prison called the...believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. "I was accompanied to this prison by two gentlemen officially connected with its management, and passed...