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Conclusion - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2021

Ashley T. Rubin
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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This chapter describes the Pennsylvania System’s rapid decline at Eastern in the 1860s and 1870s. Catastrophic levels of post-war overcrowding caused the Pennsylvania System's most central components to break down in ways that the administrators fought hard to prevent or stop. However, the administrators’ verbal commitment to the Pennsylvania System ultimately outlasted its physical presence at Eastern. By the mid-1870s, something changed in the administrators' commitment: increasingly, the administrators abandoned their attempt to save the Pennsylvania System and instead redefined it into something else. This shift occurred after external criticism of the Pennsylvania System had abated. Thus, when Eastern's administrators finally abandoned the Pennsylvania System, they were not acceding to public pressure that they had withstood for nearly five decades. Instead, waning criticism had removed the administrators' opportunity to defend the Pennsylvania System and tout their own excellence, thereby allowing the Pennsylvania System to deinstitutionalize for Eastern's administrators.

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The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
, pp. 325 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Conclusion
  • Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book: The Deviant Prison
  • Online publication: 12 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754095.019
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book: The Deviant Prison
  • Online publication: 12 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754095.019
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book: The Deviant Prison
  • Online publication: 12 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754095.019
Available formats
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