Observations and Reflections on the Penitentiary System: A Letter From Franklin Bache, M.D., To Roberts Vaux (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It may easily be conceived that one of the greatest obstrue tions to the reform of criminals, who have for the first time violated the laws, is the abandonment of friends and relatives. Now nothing operates so much to produce this abandonment, asthe moral contamination of gregarious confinement. We may suppose that a single crime. Might be forgiven, if the moral disease had not been aggravated, I will not say'rendera ed incurable, by the mistaken vengeance of the law. What idea more revolting to our feelings, or stinging to the pride,than that the individual, in whose fate we possibly take a deep interest, from the claims of consanguinity or early friendship, may be familiarly taken by the hand. By several hundreds of the most hardened ofi'enders. If such individual had been separately confined, he is returned to his friends at the mi. Ration of his sentence, at least not rendered worse than, at its commencement, and his disgrace is known to comparatively few. N o wound is inflicted hythe claimed fellowship of the most abandoned, and no danger incurred by the individual from their seductive arts. Every circumstance seems favour able to the exertions of his friends to bring him hackto the path of rectitude.

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