Auburn Correctional Facility - Wikipedia
Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was built on land that was once a Cayuga village. [2] It is classified as a maximum security …
Auburn State Prison | History, Inmates & Reforms | Britannica
Auburn State Prison, prison located in Auburn, New York. Opened in 1816, it established a disciplinary and administrative system based on silence, corporal punishment, and …
19th Century Prison Reform Collection - Cornell University
In the early to mid- 19th Century, US criminal justice was undergoing massive reform. The state prisons which had emerged out of earlier reform efforts were becoming increasingly crowded, …
Auburn system - Wikipedia
The silent system evolved during the 1820s at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, as an alternative to and modification of the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement, which it …
Both Sides of the Wall: Auburn and Its Prison
Known now as the Auburn Correctional Facility, this institution created the system of incarceration known as the “Auburn System”, which became widely popular and emulated. Notable …
Auburn system | Reform, Prisons, Punishment | Britannica
Auburn system, penal method of the 19th century in which persons worked during the day and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times. The silent system …
Auburn Correctional Facility - Cayuga Museum of History and Art
What is now called Auburn Correctional Facility has been open in Auburn since 1817, and it is the oldest continually operating prison in the country. Auburn’s claim to being the preeminent …
'Both Sides of Wall' exhibit brochure -- Pages 1 & 2
Auburn Prison became the first in the world to house prisoners in individual cells. This design, which became known as the Auburn plan or inside cell design, became the model for all …
architecture, and describes the decisive influence of correctional architecture upon correctional policies. What is the effect upon future correctional policies of current prison construction? And …
Auburn & Osborne: Their Role in Correction History
This NYCHS 7-page presentation focuses on those parts of their report about Auburn prison and its methods that became the American model. Bellevue included the NYC Penitentiary. Before …