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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... committed for the assizes — that is , those charged with felonies — are , * It is much to be regretted that in the new Prison Act there is no clause requiring the removal of insane prisoners to a lunatic asylum , or their sepa- rate ...
... committed for the assizes — that is , those charged with felonies — are , * It is much to be regretted that in the new Prison Act there is no clause requiring the removal of insane prisoners to a lunatic asylum , or their sepa- rate ...
Stran 20
... committed as dangerous to be at large . The evils resulting from this neglected state of prison discipline , are returning in the part of the country in which this pri- son is situated , in an increasing ratio of re - commitments ...
... committed as dangerous to be at large . The evils resulting from this neglected state of prison discipline , are returning in the part of the country in which this pri- son is situated , in an increasing ratio of re - commitments ...
Stran 21
... committed for trial are fettered with irons , the weight of which is from seven to nine pounds . The preamble of the new Prison Act declares that it is expedient that such measures should be adopted , and such arrangements made in ...
... committed for trial are fettered with irons , the weight of which is from seven to nine pounds . The preamble of the new Prison Act declares that it is expedient that such measures should be adopted , and such arrangements made in ...
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... committed on charge or sus- picion of felony ; 5th , prisoners committed on charge or suspicion of misdemeanors , or for want of sure- ties . In Houses of Correction ; -1st , prisoners convicted of felony ; 2d , prisoners convicted of ...
... committed on charge or sus- picion of felony ; 5th , prisoners committed on charge or suspicion of misdemeanors , or for want of sure- ties . In Houses of Correction ; -1st , prisoners convicted of felony ; 2d , prisoners convicted of ...
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... committed for debts above two shillings and under five pounds ; the term of confinement being dependent on the amount . One debtor was imprisoned , at the time of this visit , for £ 3 . 1s . and had to pass eighty days in the society of ...
... committed for debts above two shillings and under five pounds ; the term of confinement being dependent on the amount . One debtor was imprisoned , at the time of this visit , for £ 3 . 1s . and had to pass eighty days in the society of ...
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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...