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Gustave de Beaumont  

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  • French magistrate, aristocrat, and prison reformer Gustave de Beaumont was born February 6, 1802. In 1831–32, he investigated the penitentiaries of the United States with his lifelong friend Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59). [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Beaumont, Gustave de]

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