Economic Significance
"I must say that I consider it both inexpedient and decidedly wrong that the insane, or idiots, or any other persons, should be confined in prisons, except those who have been convicted for crimes, or who are strongly suspected that it is necessary they should be holden for safe keeping until they can be tried for the offences for which they stand charged".
~Warden of Cambridge Prison, Quote read in Memorial To the Legislature of Massachusetts