Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, Količina 5W. Phillips, 1823 - 32 strani |
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... appear extraordinary that feelings of humanity and regard for the safe administration of justice , should not , before the days of Howard , have led to the improvement of our prisons : but it seems that the legislature was content with ...
... appear extraordinary that feelings of humanity and regard for the safe administration of justice , should not , before the days of Howard , have led to the improvement of our prisons : but it seems that the legislature was content with ...
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... appear to have produced but little * 19th Charles II . c . IV . s . 2. — And whereas sometimes by occasions of the plague , and other whiles by the great number of prisoners , great and infectious diseases have happened among the ...
... appear to have produced but little * 19th Charles II . c . IV . s . 2. — And whereas sometimes by occasions of the plague , and other whiles by the great number of prisoners , great and infectious diseases have happened among the ...
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... appear obvious to those who are un- acquainted with the actual condition , at the present time , of many of our gaols . To afford this information , the Committee submit a brief account of a few prisons , - and there are many equally ...
... appear obvious to those who are un- acquainted with the actual condition , at the present time , of many of our gaols . To afford this information , the Committee submit a brief account of a few prisons , - and there are many equally ...
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... appears by a Statement which the Committee have pre- pared , ( a copy of which is inserted in the Appendix , ) that there are in England one hundred and seventy boroughs , cities , towns , and liberties , which possess the right of ...
... appears by a Statement which the Committee have pre- pared , ( a copy of which is inserted in the Appendix , ) that there are in England one hundred and seventy boroughs , cities , towns , and liberties , which possess the right of ...
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... appear not to have been thought of in the construction of these buildings : this defect , which occasions great insecurity , requires increased attention on the part of the officers , but in several instances it is found that the keeper ...
... appear not to have been thought of in the construction of these buildings : this defect , which occasions great insecurity , requires increased attention on the part of the officers , but in several instances it is found that the keeper ...
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48 steps airing-yards alteration amount Appendix attends Borough Borough Compter bread per day Bridewell building Capital offenders cells chapel chaplain City classes classification Committee Common gaol convicted County Gaol County House crime criminals day-rooms debtors dietary discharge Ditto dysentery earnings employed employment erected extends to trial feet felons female prisoners four Gaol and house governor greatest number gruel half a pound half of bread hard labour Hoare Hours house of correction imprisonment infirmary inspection irons keeper Lancaster Castle magistrates male prisoners matron ment mill misdemeanants night-cells Northallerton number of prisoners oakum oatmeal officers ounces Penitentiary persons pint pound of bread present prison discipline Prison Society prisoners committed punishment quarter sessions rate of labour regulations Report rooms scurvy sentenced Sept solitary confinement soners soup steps 7 inch Sundays tion total number town tread-mill tread-wheel untried vagrants velocity wall wards week wheel women yards
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Stran 84 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Stran 22 - A Matron shall be appointed in every Prison in which Female Prisoners shall be confined, who shall reside in the Prison ; and it shall be the Duty of the Matron constantly to superintend the Female Prisoners.
Stran 122 - ... general or quarter sessions assembled, regard being had (so far as may relate to convicted prisoners) to the nature of the labour required from or performed by such prisoners, so that the allowance of food may be duly apportioned thereto. And it shall be lawful for...
Stran 21 - ... as shall not only provide for the safe custody, but shall also tend more effectually to preserve the health and to improve the morals of the prisoners confined therein, and...
Stran 42 - But this imprisonment, as has been said, is only for safe custody, and not for punishment: therefore in this dubious interval between the commitment and trial, a prisoner ought to be used with the utmost humanity, and neither be loaded with needless fetters, nor subjected to other hardships than such as are absolutely requisite for the purpose of confinement only...
Stran 71 - ... the other was of itself inadequate to produce the disease. Such being the character and extent of the disease in the Penitentiary, and such its most probable causes, we proceeded to adopt those measures for counteracting it, which its own nature and the opinion we entertained of its origin seemed to suggest. We ordered an immediate change in the diet of the prison. In place of pease and barley soup for dinner, we substituted a daily allowance of four ounces of flesh meat, and eight ounces of...
Stran 85 - ... the one moiety whereof to be to the queen's majesty, her heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the party or parties grieved by such feigned and fraudulent...
Stran 86 - And whereas many and great doubts difficulties and incon' veniences have arisen in making and collecting other of the said rates ; ' therefore that the good ends and purposes of the said several statutes ' may be answered and the several sums of money thereby intended to ' be raised may effectually be collected with as much ease and certainty ' and as little expence as can be to the parties obliged by the said laws to ' pay the same ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty,...
Stran 86 - Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same...
Stran 68 - With regard to the extent of this disease, we found more than one-half of the whole number of prisoners affected by it, in one or other, or in all its forms ; but the proportion was not the same among the prisoners...