From Mass Imprisonment to Abolition (USP): Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

In 1776, the same year that America declared its independence from Britain, Philadelphia's jailhouse in the [[Walnut Street]] received its first inmates, because conditions in the old High Street Jail had become untenable. The building was neat from the outside, but less attractive inside, and at first nothing indicated that it should soon serve as a turning point in the history of punishment.

==== Philadelphia: the Solitary System  ====

This turning point was the construction of an additional building in the very yard of the U-shaped Jail, a small house called the "penitentiary house" by those who approved its construction in 1790 at the initiative of the ''Philadelphia Society for the Alleviation of the Miseries of Public Prisons.''