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What was commonly believed about prisons and asylums during the age of reform?
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∙ 13y ago
It was believed that solitary confinement would lead an inmate to reflect inward at the crime they committed and pray to God and thus reform their behavior. Of course this did not work in a great many cases, and the Inmate would go mad.
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