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" ... to the other, it is the testimony of many witnesses that they have passed more than three hundred convicts without seeing one leave his work, or turn his head to gaze at them. There is the most perfect attention to business from morning till night,... "
Fourth of July at Auburn Prison: Proceedings and Address. A Gratifying ... - Page 59
by Horatio Seymour - 1826 - 12 pages
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Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of ..., Volumes 6-7

Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England) - Juvenile delinquency - 1824 - 1080 pages
...perfect attention to business from morning till night, interrupted only by the time necessary to dine ; and never by the fact that the whole body of prisoners...of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all hid aside at once, and the convicts return in military order to the solitary cells, where they partake...
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The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845: With ...

Orlando Faulkland Lewis - Prisons - 1922 - 358 pages
...attention to business from morning till night, interrupted only by the time, necessary to dine — and never by the fact that the whole body of prisoners...tasks and the time is now their own, and they can do as they please. "At the close of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all laid aside, at once,...
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Criminology and Penology

John Lewis Gillin - Crime - 1926 - 896 pages
...attention to business from morning till night, interrupted only by the time necessary to dine—and never by the fact that the whole body of prisoners...tasks and the time is now their own, and they can do as they please. "At the close of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all laid aside, at once,...
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A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a ...

Denis R. Caron - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 212 pages
...perfect attention to business from morning till night, interrupted only by the time necessary to dine, and never by the fact that the whole body of prisoners...tasks, and the time is now their own, and they can do as they please. At the close of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all laid aside at once,...
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