Solitary confinement is the ideal of the classic school of criminology.

He was ill already of a wound received the previous year, and the confinement and trouble of mindwhich before long became acutebrought his life to a close.

The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor.

A month's confinement to one who never kept his bed a day is a stinging lesson, and has humbled my insolence to almost indifference.