Eleventh annual report of the board of managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston, May, 1836.

"We are almost sick of the experiment; it fails so much..." 8vo, wraps. 84pp + 20 plates, Contents complete but lacking rear wrap. Chipping/creasing to cover, light foxing throughout but generally still bright.The Prison Discipline Society visited prisons and institutions across America to assess their conditions and efficacy, with subjects of inquiry including food, clothing, exercise, hospital, sanitation, vice, punishment, and moral resources. Founded by Rev. Louis Dwight in 1825 after he had witnessed horrid conditions during his time distributing Bibles to prisoners, although it was not the first prison reform society in America, it quickly became the most prominent and vocal. He was an adamant supporter of the Auburn System of confinement, wherein inmates labor communally during the day but are kept solitary at night, particularly in contrast to the Pennsylvania System (Philadelphia Prison, later known as Eastern State Penitentiary), which called for complete confinement, not see