Excerpt from A Letter on the Superior Advantages of Separate Confinement Over the System of Prison Discipline: At Present Adopted in Goals and Houses of Correction, Addressed to Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M. P., And Respecfully Dedicated to the Worshipful Her Majesty's Justice of the Peace for the Country of Surrey By this instrument the great principles of Howard were set aside, if not forgotten (except in a single instance), and in 10 years tread-wheels were revolving in all parts of the kingdom. The United States, however, recalled to as the recollection of former times, by the success of their Penitentiaries, the fame of which had been wafted to our shores across the great Atlantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.