Enoch Wines and Theodore Dwight wrote a critical assessment report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada in 1867. It said that the Auburn system of "silence, flogging so and solitary confinement," was ineffective. They argued that jails should loosen their rules and use education and behavioral incentives. They also said if they were dehumanizing, like Auburn, prisons were ineffective.

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