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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Crofton system

/kräf'-tən sĭs'-təm/ · Crof·ton sys·tem · IPA
01 A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restra…
  1. 1.
    A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.(Penology)