Associations to the word «Crofton»

Wiktionary

CROFTON SYSTEM, proper noun. (historical) A system of prison discipline involving periods of confinement to one's cell, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope