English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to DeathThe local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". This work examines how private perceptions and concerns became public policy. It also traces the move in English government from the rural and aristocratic to the urban and more democratic. It follows the rise of the powerful elite of the higher civil service, describes some of the forces that attempted to oppose it, and provides a window through which to view the process of state formation. |
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... labour required from the vagrant , their workhouse accommodation , and their ... penal practice was , of course , the grail which Carnarvon sought constantly ... PENAL PROSPECTING Apart from his interests as a major ratepayer 34 ENGLISH ...
... labour required from the vagrant , their workhouse accommodation , and their ... penal practice was , of course , the grail which Carnarvon sought constantly ... PENAL PROSPECTING Apart from his interests as a major ratepayer 34 ENGLISH ...
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... penal servitude was certain to be discussed and legislated upon . The ... Labour and the Poor . " After several years of torpor and personal troubles ... Penal Servitude ( Select Committee on the Provisions and Operation of the Act 16 ...
... penal servitude was certain to be discussed and legislated upon . The ... Labour and the Poor . " After several years of torpor and personal troubles ... Penal Servitude ( Select Committee on the Provisions and Operation of the Act 16 ...
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... penal servitude was further stimulated at this time by his general reading ... labour were enforced , had it been “ manfully 86 The characterization of The ... labour - market - how few would be left to tenant our gaols ... allow the ...
... penal servitude was further stimulated at this time by his general reading ... labour were enforced , had it been “ manfully 86 The characterization of The ... labour - market - how few would be left to tenant our gaols ... allow the ...
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... penal servitude . The Times articles appeared at the height of the garotting scare ( in the fanning of which the ... labour , the leader declared , in the convict prisons and " penal servitude , as now administered , involves neither ...
... penal servitude . The Times articles appeared at the height of the garotting scare ( in the fanning of which the ... labour , the leader declared , in the convict prisons and " penal servitude , as now administered , involves neither ...
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... penal servitude . " Labour was " almost a farce " : five convicts performed only the work of two free labourers . Full diet and little labour egregiously breached the principle of less - eligibility : " To compare this high feeding with ...
... penal servitude . " Labour was " almost a farce " : five convicts performed only the work of two free labourers . Full diet and little labour egregiously breached the principle of less - eligibility : " To compare this high feeding with ...
Contents
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CARNARVON AND NATIONAL PENAL POLICY | 97 |
THE SOCIAL AND PENAL IDEAS OF SIR EDMUND | 149 |
THE FLAWED PROSPECTUS | 188 |
Discipline labour and instruction | 235 |
Health dietary and discharge arrangements | 282 |
Special categories | 335 |
THE JUSTICES REACT TO NATIONALIZATION | 432 |
THE COMMITTEES ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE | 481 |
TRIUMPH OF THE CLERKS | 509 |
THE CALL FOR A PRISON INQUIRY | 549 |
PERSONALITIES AND PREOCCUPATIONS | 585 |
COMPOUNDING ERRORS | 615 |
AFTERMATH | 649 |
THE FINAL ACT | 697 |
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