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Meaning of CROFTON SYSTEM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Crof"ton sys"tem\ [After Sir Walter Crofton,
Irish penologist.] (Penology)
A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive
periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under
the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment
and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.
 
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