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The original intention of solitary confinement day and night, without labour, has been abandoned, al- though maintained so late as 1828. In a report of that year, the commissioners appointed to superin- tend the building, expressly stated — " It never was the design of tlie legislature who passed the lata, or of those who planned and built the prison, to introduce labour in the system. 3 ' Thus it appears that an important portion of their plan, pertinaciously cherished for at least ten years, ...has been wisely abandoned — and of course three of the principal objections to the system, advanced by Mr. Roscoe, the Marquis de la Fayette,* Mr. Li- * " The state of Pennsylvania, which has given the world an example of hu- manity, and whose code of philanthropy has been quoted and canvassed by all Europe, is now about to proclaim to the world the inefficacy of the system, and revive and restore the cruel code of the most barbarous and unenlightened age. — I hope my friends of Pennsylvania will consider the effect this system had on the poor prisoners of the Bastile.
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