Mark System (1 янв 1840 г. – 1 янв 1840 г.)

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Maconochie created a mark system in which “marks” were provided to the offender for each day of successful toil. This system was quite well organized and thought out. It was based on five main tenets, as described by Barnes and Teeters:
Release should be based not on the completing of a sentence for a set period of time but on completion of a determined and specified quantity of labor. In brief, time sentences should be abolished and task sentences substantiated.The quantity of labor a prisoner must perform should be expressed in a number of “marks” that he must earn, by improvement of conduct, frugality of living, and habits of industry, before he can be released.While in prison he should earn everything he receives. All sustenance and indulgences should be added to his debt of marks.When qualified by discipline to do so, he should work in association with a small number of other prisoners, forming a group of six or seven, and the whole group should be answerable for the conduct of labor of each member.In the final stage, a prisoner, while still obliged to earn his daily tally of marks, should be given a proprietary interest in his own labor and be subject to a less rigorous discipline, to prepare him for release into society.

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