A popular essay on subjects of penal law, and on uninterrupted solitary confinement at labor, as contradistinguished to solitary confinement at night and joint labor by day, in a letter to John Bacon / by Francis Lieber.

  • Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A popular essay on subjects of penal law, and on uninterrupted solitary confinement at labor, as contradistinguished to solitary confinement at night and joint labor by day, in a letter to John Bacon / by Francis Lieber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    might have been inadmissible in a strictly scientific work. I ask for no favour at the hands of the reader; the subject alone can engage us; but I claim as a right that he who shall begin the perusal of the following pages at all, should fairly read them to the end, and not judge by skipping, still less by garbled extracts. The subject is too grave, the essay resembles too much the few outlines of a sketch, to allow of an indulgence which may remain harmless if the object of the work is mere entertainment, though it must ever be a trying one for the writer. THE AUTHOR.