silent system

Near the end of the 1800s, the striped uniforms, lockstep and silent system were abandoned.

Experimental treatments here included the silent system, and the treadmill .

Under this system of punishment the "Silent System" was implemented in the building.

That, and Auburn, are, I believe, the largest and best examples of the silent system.

In the Separate prison they used the "Silent System".

The original Super 8 film release was a silent system only, but in 1973 a sound on film version was released.

Heaven knows what the refractory system will produce when combined with the silent system - a population of lighthouse-keepers, perhaps.

Recorded with the silent system.

At the time of Makley's incarceration, Indiana State Prison was on the silent system.

It was popularized in the movie version of The Hunt for Red October, written by Tom Clancy, which portrayed it as a virtually silent system.

Russell Fawcus recently joined The Black Hundred, with former members of Oneironaut, Season, and The Grand Silent System.

In all silent systems, engaging the silent function causes a bar to move into place such that it intercepts the shank and stops the hammer from hitting the piano string.

The Auburn system, or the silent system, hinged on prisoners working in groups during the day, maintaining solitary confinement at night, and adhering to a strict code of silence at all times.

For example, a representation of a law court could tell us something about the role of judges, lawyers, jury, witnesses: representations of the silent system within prisons may convey something of the nature of that practice.

After a moment, he walked down to the office, standing in the archway and looking at the silent systems, the blank screens, and the row of old-fashioned wooden cases that held antique bound paper books even more dated than the cases.

All the instances of reformation that were mentioned to me, were of a kind that might have been - and I have no doubt whatever, in my own mind, would have been - equally well brought about by the Silent System.

The silent system evolved during the 1820s at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, as an alternative to and modification of the Pennsylvania System of solitary confinement, which it gradually replaced in the United States.

Under a system outlawed in NSW in the late 19th century for adults prisoners called the 'silent system', or 'silent treatment', girls were not permitted to speak without signalling for permission; they were required to have their eyes to the floor at all times.