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Excerpt from Memorials of Millbank
Suggestions such as these may have seemed im possible to those to whom they were propounded; but that the plan of action was simple and feasible, is now most satisfactorily proved. Elam Lynds, the celebrated governor of sing-sing prison, in the State of New York, acted precisely in this manner, encamping out in the Open with his hundreds Of prisoners, and compelling them in this way to build their own prison-house, cell by cell, as bees would build a hive. De Tocqueville, commenting on this seemingly strange episode of prison history, Oh serves that the manner in which Mr. Elam Lynds built sing-sing would no doubt raise incredulity, were not the fact quite recent, and publicly known in the United States. To understand it we have only to realize what resources the new prison dis cipline of America placed at the disposal of an ener getic man.
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