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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Page 65
... visiting committee , which was charged with the day to day oversight of the ... justices , emphatically dismissed talk of a mutinous plot . Speaking at the ... visiting justice , the Reverend J.T. Maine , also cast doubt on the alleged ...
... visiting committee , which was charged with the day to day oversight of the ... justices , emphatically dismissed talk of a mutinous plot . Speaking at the ... visiting justice , the Reverend J.T. Maine , also cast doubt on the alleged ...
Page 69
... visiting justice , the Reverend J.T. Maine , it was “ wafted forthwith ... to every corner of the earth . " The visiting justices , he bitterly complained , did not expect or deserve to be held up to ridicule in Punch and Fun " where ...
... visiting justice , the Reverend J.T. Maine , it was “ wafted forthwith ... to every corner of the earth . " The visiting justices , he bitterly complained , did not expect or deserve to be held up to ridicule in Punch and Fun " where ...
Page 70
... visiting justices that the treadwheel did not work , and they had done what they could to get it mended . Indeed , when comparisons were made " it would seem that at Winchester there was really more hard - labour power than in other ...
... visiting justices that the treadwheel did not work , and they had done what they could to get it mended . Indeed , when comparisons were made " it would seem that at Winchester there was really more hard - labour power than in other ...
Page 71
... visiting justices ' discontent still simmered , and so , on Lord Eversley's advice , and to avoid attacks on a partly completed scheme , Carnarvon abandoned his intention to make a preliminary report to the Easter Sessions . The ...
... visiting justices ' discontent still simmered , and so , on Lord Eversley's advice , and to avoid attacks on a partly completed scheme , Carnarvon abandoned his intention to make a preliminary report to the Easter Sessions . The ...
Page 72
... visiting justices ' discretionary authority . " It is , " Carnarvon lamented , " extremely difficult if not impossible to frame the res [ olution ] so as to tie the v [ isiting ] j [ ustices ] effectually down to the system which we ...
... visiting justices ' discretionary authority . " It is , " Carnarvon lamented , " extremely difficult if not impossible to frame the res [ olution ] so as to tie the v [ isiting ] j [ ustices ] effectually down to the system which we ...
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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