Compare and contrast the Pennsylvania and the New York penitentiary theories. The Pennsylvania system operated under the concept of separate confinement

What will be an ideal response?


o where inmates were kept separate from one another at all times, with daily activities taking place in individual cells.
The only contact inmates had with other human beings was during the visit
o from a clergyman or a prison administrator.
The New York system operated the congregate system where inmates were
o kept in separate cells during the night but worked together in the daytime under a code of enforced silence.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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