Auburn system

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Etymology

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Introduced in the Auburn Prison, New York.

Proper noun

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the Auburn system

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  1. (historical) A penal method of the 19th century in which prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.