Excerpt from America, Vol. 2 of 2: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive Journey from Canandaigua to Auburn - First sight of an American country funeral - Visit to the State prison Condition of the establishment - Act of the legislature respecting prison labour - Statistics of crime, education, and intemperance - Moral and religious reform - Description of the edifice and its cells - Discipline and treatment of the convicts-visit to the chapel during divine service - Defects of the Auburn system of prison discipline - Opinions of Dr. Lieber of South Carolina - Objections to the Penn sylvania system answered - Opinions of British inspectors on the Auburn system - Superiority of the Philadelphia system - Description of the town of Auburn. 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.