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OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM. A LETTER FROM FRANKLIN BACHE, M.D. TO ROBERTS VAUX by [Prisons]: Bache, Franklin:
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Book description: Philadelphia. 1829.. 13pp. Dbd. Very good. Bache comments on the ideas advanced by the Philadelphia millionaire and advocate of prison reform, largely on Vaux's ideas on the separate confinement of prisoners. Franklin Bache was the physician to the Philadelphia penitentiary. This essay was published in the same year as the opening of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, which adopted solitary confinement (known also as the "Pennsylvania System") as the preferred method of incarceration. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 37534. SABIN 2590.
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