Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Essay on Separate and Congregate Systems of Prison Discipline: Being a Report Made to the Boston Prison Discipline Society
When a government seizes upon a person, especially if he'?ie young, and deprives him of all liberty of action, it assumes at once the offices, and incurs the responsibilities, of a parent and guardian. How fearful, then, is the thought, that many governments do, in fact, administer their trust in such wise as would condemn an individual parent to infamy! The dungeon, the fetter, and the scaffold are their common awards, and their tender mercy is only to prolong the bodily existence of their victims, by herding them together in loathsome dens, where is engendered an atmosphere of crime and depravity which extinguishes the life of the soul; and all this without any view to the good of the prisoner.
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