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Vom 6. März 1842 (bis wahrscheinlich zum 9. März) besuchte Charles Dickens im Jahre 1842 auf seiner USA-Reise die Stadt Philadelphia, wo er Edgar Allan Poe traf und das [[Eastern State Penitentiary]] besuchte. Über den Gefängnisbesuch berichtete er voller Enttäuschung über das Separate System: | |||
In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the Eastern Penitentiary: conducted on a plan peculiar to the state of Pennsylvania. The system here, is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. | In the outskirts, stands a great prison, called the Eastern Penitentiary: conducted on a plan peculiar to the state of Pennsylvania. The system here, is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. | ||
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*[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva344.html | *[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva344.html Dickens, Charles: American Notes, Chapter 7: Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison] | ||
*Dickens, Charles (1842/1926) Amerian Notes for General Circulation. New York: Harper & Brothers |