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What did the quakers criminal code include?

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The abolition of capital punishment for all crimes other than homicide. The substitution of imprisonment at hard labor for bloody corporal punishments. The provision of free food and lodging to inmates. The replacement of the stocks and pillory with houses of detention.

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