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Auburn System.
Mass Prison Era
The Auburn System is not a single prison, but a model or theory upon which a prison is planned or run. The Auburn System used the old Quaker idea of solitary confinement (Walnut Street Jail after the 1790 addition) and brought the prisoners into a common area for work assignments. It was an adaptation of the Pennsylvania System, (Eastern and Western States Penitentiaries built in 1829) which kept prisoners in their own cell to do work. The influence of the Auburn System is seen in just about any prison industry system.
New York's Auburn Prison.
It was an experiment in solitary confinement in prisons. This was an experiment in the Mass Prison Era of 1825-1876. Solitary Confinement was the basis for the Pennsylvania System and the Auburn System was what put an end to the Pennsylvania system.
He was electrocuted at Auburn State Prison, Auburn, NY.
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Two 19th-century prison systems include the Auburn system (also known as the "silent system" or "Congregate System") and the Pennsylvania system (also known as the "separate system" or "solitary confinement"). The Auburn system emphasized congregate work during the day while the Pennsylvania system focused on isolating inmates in individual cells at all times. These approaches were developed to instill discipline and foster rehabilitation through different means of controlling and monitoring prisoners.
William Kemmler at Auburn Prison in New York on 6 August 1890.
The Auburn system originated in the 19th century and it involved having people work during the day and at night be locked in solitary confinement. It was also known as the New York system.
Silence and confinement
It was founded in 1793 as Hardenbergh Corners and is the home of the Auburn Prison now called Auburn Correctional Facility where Leon Czolgosz who killed William McKinley became the first man executed by the electric chair on 29 October 1901.