English Explanatory Dictionary

Auburn system

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A penal method of the 19th century in which prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.

Word forms

Auburn system the Auburn system

Etymology

Introduced in the Auburn Prison, New York.

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