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Pennsylvania Prison System

2017· other· en· W2784660654 on OpenAlexaff
Ashley T. Rubin

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Corrections · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrisonSolitary confinementIdeologyPolitical scienceCriminologyState (computer science)LawSociologyPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract The Pennsylvania system was a distinctive plan for prison organization centered on prisoners' long‐term solitary confinement. Although its ideological origins can be traced to the colonial period, and it manifested in the decades after the American Revolution, the Pennsylvania system primarily refers to the mode of confinement used at Pennsylvania's two state prisons between the 1820s and the 1860s. While prisoners remained in solitary confinement, reformers and prison administrators used the term “separate confinement” to emphasize that prisoners were not completely isolated: they received visits from prison employees as well as select visitors, primarily local penal reformers. The prison administrators, staff, and the local penal reformers offered primary education, often teaching illiterate prisoners to read and write, and sought to instruct the prisoners in issues of morality. Prisoners also worked within their cells on traditional crafts such as weaving, shoemaking, carpentry, and, in a few cases, blacksmithing. Though the subject of significant debate among reformers, legislators, and prison administrators interested in the best mode of prison design, the Pennsylvania system was adopted at only four prisons nationwide. By the time of the Civil War, it existed only within Pennsylvania's prisons, which abandoned the system within a decade of the war's end.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.400
Threshold uncertainty score0.967

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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