“We might feel a pride in the reflection, that our young cou…
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“We might feel а pride in the reflectiоn, thаt оur yоung country…wаs the first to adopt with any efficacy, the penitentiary system of prison discipline, and the first to attempt to prevent the commission of crimes, by seeking out the youthful and unprotected, who were in the way of temptation, and by religions and moral instruction, by imparting to them useful knowledge, and by giving them industrious and orderly habits, rescuing them from vice, and rendering them valuable members of society… To confine these youthful criminals…where no, or scarcely any, distinction can be made between the young and the old, or between the more or less vicious, where little can be learned but the ways of the wicked, and from whence they must be sent to encounter new wants, new temptation, and to commit new crimes, is to pursue a course, as little reconcilable with justice as humanity; yet, till the House of Refuge was established there was no alternative.”-Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, Fourth Annual Report, 1829The above account best reflects what growing reform sentiment during the period 1820 to 1848?