"In the Maine Prison, which has been in operation about three years, a large number of the convicts have been sentenced to six months solitary confinement day and night, and to a period of time afterwards of solitary confinement at night, and hard labor by day. A considerable number more have been sentenced to solitary confinement day and night, for the whole term of their imprisonment. This Prison is under the management of a gentleman, who has been a member of the Senate, in the State of Maine, and who is, also, a skilful physician. He has, therefore, been entrusted with discretionary power, by the Executive, to remove the men from the cells to the hospital, when their health and life required it. The former Governor of the State informed the Secretary of this Society, that it would not have been thought safe to inflict sentences of so long continuance in solitary confinement, if great confidence had not been placed in the discretion of the superintendent. The judges, however, and the Executive, when the Prison was built, were strongly in favour of solitary confinement day and night, and they wished to make a fair experiment. What, then, is the testimony of the superintendent of this Prison, on this vastly important and interesting subject? And what is the testimony of the Records of the Prison? The following statement is collected from the records and the superintendent. It exhibits the names of several convicts; the length of time they were sentenced to solitary confinement; the length of time they were able to endure it before they were removed to the hospital; the length of time they remained in the hospital before they returned to the cells; the alternation between the cells and the hospital to fulfil the whole term of solitary confinement; and the suicide of two convicts in the cells. These are the only convicts who have died since the Prison was organized."

Name and Sentence.In Solitary.In Hospital.In Solitary.
Joseph Bubier,
62 days solitary,
and one year hard labor.		June 18July 112 days.
July 3July 85 days.
July 11July 2312 days.
July 28Aug. 2427 days.

In this case it was necessary to remove the man to the hospital four times, to enable him to endure fifty-six days solitary. The Secretary saw him when he was removed from the cell the last time. He shivered like an aspen leaf; his pulse was very feeble; his articulation could scarcely be heard from his bed to the grate of his cell, eight feet; and when he was taken out, he could with difficulty stand alone.

Name and Sentence.Solitary.Suicide.In Solitary.
Simeon Record,
70 days solitary,
and four years hard labor.		Dec. 5Dec. 84 days.

At half past seven o'clock, on Wednesday morning, he was found dead, having hung himself to the grate of the cell with a piece of the lashing of his hammock.

Name and Sentence.Solitary.At Labor.In Solitary.
Isaac Martin,
60 days solitary,
and 3 months hard labor.		March 27April 2024 days.
July 1July 2625 days.

Isaac Martin cut his throat in his cell July 26, when he was removed to the hospital, where he remained nine days, and died.

Name and Sentence.Solitary.Hospital.Solitary.
Elisha Cole,
100 days solitary.		Nov. 6Dec. 2852 days.
Jan. 4Feb. 2248 days.
Name and Sentence.Solitary.Hospital.Solitary.
Socrates Howe,
6 months solitary.		July 4Sept. 766 days.
Sept. 21Nov. 747 days.
Dec. 2Jan. 1644 days.
Jan. 19Feb. 1223 days.