Philadelphia System
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The Philadelphia System was a penal system that put solitary prisoners into cells to contemplate their misdeeds and to plot a new life. The results of such solitary confinement included few reformations and numerous attempts at suicide. Pennsylvania built prisons at Pittsburg (1862) and Philadelphia (1829). Only New Jersey imitated the Pennsylvania System.
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