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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... performed : no re- ligious or moral instruction is provided , nor is any attempt made at reformation . The allowance of food is frequently scanty and insufficient ; sometimes con- sisting of a small sum of money , the mode of expend ...
... performed : no re- ligious or moral instruction is provided , nor is any attempt made at reformation . The allowance of food is frequently scanty and insufficient ; sometimes con- sisting of a small sum of money , the mode of expend ...
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... performed , although this prison is occasionally the abode of capital offenders . In another prison of this description , there is but one yard , where prisoners of every kind , males and females , felons and debtors , take their daily ...
... performed , although this prison is occasionally the abode of capital offenders . In another prison of this description , there is but one yard , where prisoners of every kind , males and females , felons and debtors , take their daily ...
Stran 77
... performing a real and substantial good : nor will the result of his benevolence be local and partial . He will confer not only an individual , but a national benefit . A great population is a mighty mass , of which , by constant ...
... performing a real and substantial good : nor will the result of his benevolence be local and partial . He will confer not only an individual , but a national benefit . A great population is a mighty mass , of which , by constant ...
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... performed by the hand crank- mill , and to the sawing and polishing of marble . The prison is frequently whitewashed throughout . * The chaplain reads two sermons on Sundays , and is in frequent attendance . The commitments have been as ...
... performed by the hand crank- mill , and to the sawing and polishing of marble . The prison is frequently whitewashed throughout . * The chaplain reads two sermons on Sundays , and is in frequent attendance . The commitments have been as ...
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... performed in the prison . A few books are allowed , but no other means of religious in- struction are provided . There is no employment of any kind . The allowance of food is 11⁄2 lb. of bread per day . There are no rules whatever for ...
... performed in the prison . A few books are allowed , but no other means of religious in- struction are provided . There is no employment of any kind . The allowance of food is 11⁄2 lb. of bread per day . There are no rules whatever for ...
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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
Priljubljeni odlomki
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...