Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, Tom 5W. Phillips, 1823 - 32 |
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... proportion ( amounting to sixty ) have only two classes for prisoners of all descriptions . * The importance of inspection , and the means of insur- ing constant superintendence , appear not to have been thought of in the construction ...
... proportion ( amounting to sixty ) have only two classes for prisoners of all descriptions . * The importance of inspection , and the means of insur- ing constant superintendence , appear not to have been thought of in the construction ...
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... proportion only of these prisons is any chapel attached . It is seldom that any divine service is performed : no re- ligious or moral instruction is provided , nor is any attempt made at reformation . The allowance of food is frequently ...
... proportion only of these prisons is any chapel attached . It is seldom that any divine service is performed : no re- ligious or moral instruction is provided , nor is any attempt made at reformation . The allowance of food is frequently ...
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... proportions of working and resting prisoners at each wheel , but also from the difference in the working hours of summer and winter ; —a difference which amounts in the daily rate of labour at some prisons to at least fifty per cent ...
... proportions of working and resting prisoners at each wheel , but also from the difference in the working hours of summer and winter ; —a difference which amounts in the daily rate of labour at some prisons to at least fifty per cent ...
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... proportion of offenders committed to such places of confinement are sentenced to " hard labour , " and but for short periods of imprisonment , during which the tread - wheel is an appropriate punishment . * Represented in the Appendix ...
... proportion of offenders committed to such places of confinement are sentenced to " hard labour , " and but for short periods of imprisonment , during which the tread - wheel is an appropriate punishment . * Represented in the Appendix ...
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... proportion of two - thirds on , and one - third as relays , each prisoner has three hours out of the nine for rest in the course of the day . These intervals are occupied by the prisoners in reading and writing : small desks are fixed ...
... proportion of two - thirds on , and one - third as relays , each prisoner has three hours out of the nine for rest in the course of the day . These intervals are occupied by the prisoners in reading and writing : small desks are fixed ...
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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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