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Elmira system, American penal system named after Elmira Reformatory, in New York. In 1876 Zebulon R. Brockway became an innovator in the reformatory movement by establishing Elmira Reformatory for young felons.
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Elmira Reformatory in upstate New York offered the most successful program of approaches since the eighteenth-century origins of American correctional education. Zebulon Reed Brockway, who established the Elmira prison program, served in prison reform for fifty years.
When New York's Elmira Reformatory opened in 1876, it rejected 19th century penology's holy trinity of silence, obedience and labor. Elmira's goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical.
historical. A nation's first reformatory. When New York's Elmira Reformatory opened in 1876, it rejected 19th century penology's holy trinity of silence, obedience and labor. Elmira's goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical.
New York would pay special attention to the Declaration of Principles adopted by Congress [nb 2] in creating its juvenile reformatory at Elmira, of which the state hired Brockway as superintendent. The 1876 law officially establishing Elmira called for five "respectable citizens" to serve as its board of managers. [ 5 ]
Elmira, New York. the United States has such a huge prison system, compared with other countries, because it has more crime. T/F. false. much of the ideas, practices, and principles that are the foundation of the American Criminal Justice System were adopted from what country. England.
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Zebulon Brockway presented a paper based on the Irish system, which dealt with the idea of an indeterminate sentence and the possibilities of a system of parole. The prison reformers meeting in Cincinnati urged New York to adopt Brockway’s proposal at Elmira.
