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Communicating with Prisoners

Public Interest Analysis

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  • Topic Collection: Mabillon

    The seventeenth-century French cleric Jean Mabillon criticized the harsh regime of monastic penal imprisonment, but didn’t value ordinary communication with imprisoned monks.

    Mabillon’s Public Concern for Imprisoned Brother Denis

    Mabillon advocated only official visitors for imprisoned monks, but also communicated as a friend with the imprisoned Brother Denis.

    Type: Article

    Monastic Influence in Penal Policy Imagination

    Perhaps from Mabillon’s penal essay, penal historians have projected silence and isolation in new 19th-century prisons back to monastic precedents.

    Type: Note
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