"Interior View of a Cell" (detail). From Richard Vaux, Brief Sketch of the Origin and History of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia (Philadelphia: McLaughlin Brothers, 1872).An unnamed prisoner working in his solitary cell at Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia. "It would be impossible to live here without labor," said one inmate in the 1830s.
On the economics and discipline of labor in nineteenth-century penitentiaries, see Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini, The Prison and the Factory, and Michael Ignatieff, A Just Measure of Pain.
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