What Are The Two Characteristics Of The Auburn System

From the later decades of the 18th century until around the middle of the 19th century historians generally agree that the so-called modern penitentiary system broke through internationally. A feature of this system was a belief in the ability to rehabilitate individuals through the use of isolation. The Auburn and Pennsylvania prison models in the United States dating back to the 1820s were model institutions that were copied all over the western world by other countries. The Auburn system (also known as the New York System) evolved during the 1820s at the Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. The Auburn system had two characteristics that were unique to the system of disciplinary conditions. Characteristic one of the Auburn system was the silent