 | John Reynolds (of Vermont.) - Prisons - 1839 - 348 pages
...carry it too far, and he will become a savage in his temper and feelings, or he will sink in despair. There is no doubt, that uninterrupted solitude tends to sour the feelings, destroy the all'cctious, harden the heart, and induce men to cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair.... | |
 | Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - Prisons - 1841 - 628 pages
...carry it too far, and ho will become a savage in his temper and feelings, or he will sink in despair. There is no doubt, that uninterrupted solitude tends...cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair." " ' I would not wish to be understood to express an opinion, that solitary imprisonment ought not,... | |
 | Francis Calley Gray - Prison discipline - 1847 - 220 pages
...wrought on the subject of exclusive solitary confinement, without labor. 40 " We now believe, that solitude, combined with labor, applied to convicts...Yet solitude, to a certain extent, is indispensable in prison discipline. A degree of mental anguish and distress may be necessary to humble and reform... | |
 | Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - Prisons - 1855 - 1068 pages
...instance of reformation, among that class, has been known." G. Powers, p. 36. " We now believe, that solitude, combined with labor, applied to convicts...Yet solitude, to a certain extent, is indispensable in prison discipline. A degree of mental anguish and distress may be necessary to humble and reform... | |
 | Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - Prisons - 1855 - 1012 pages
...carry it too far, and he will become a savage in his temper and feelings, or he will sink in despair. There is no doubt, that uninterrupted solitude tends...cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair.' " I would not wish to be understood to express an opinion, that solitary imprisonment ought not, in... | |
 | Charities - 1860 - 234 pages
...certain extent, or he will not be likely to reform. " Uninterrupted solitude," tends without doubt to " sour the feelings, destroy the affections, harden...cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair, and too often into insanity." Shall we relieve his solitude by introducing him into a gang of convicts... | |
 | Mark E. Kann - History - 2005 - 337 pages
...critics of long-term solitude recognized that its terrors could be useful. Warden Gershom Powers wrote, "There is no doubt that uninterrupted solitude tends...cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair. [Yet] a degree of mental anguish and distress may be necessary to humble and reform an offender." Nearly... | |
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... best possible middle ground between the two extremes of penitentiary punishment. " The diversion and exercise arising from labor, which the convicts now enjoy, are certainly no more than is indispensable to mental and bodily health : and their earnings... 