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Which prison model did Samuel Gridley Howe support in the 1840s?
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Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
During the 1840s, Samuel Gridley Howe advocated for the solitary-confinement model of prisoner incarceration, which was exemplified by the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. This approach is known as the Pennsylvania system.1