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The Purgatory of Prisoners; Or an Intermediate Stage Between the Prison and the Public. Being Some Account of the Practical Working of the New System of Penal Reformation Introduced by the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland

The Purgatory of Prisoners; Or an Intermediate Stage Between the Prison and the Public. Being Some Account of the Practical Working of the New System of Penal Reformation Introduced by the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. FORMER CONDITION OF IRISH PRISONS AND PRISONERS.--MEANS TAKEN TO IMPROVE THEM.--RESULT OF THE NEW SYSTEM. Having thus attempted to give a general idea of the system which the Directors have introduced into Ireland, it may be interesting to note what was the state of management, and government of convict prisons which they superseded, and what particular efforts they made to establish the new system. This will best be done from the evidence of Captain Crofton before the Committee of the House of Commons; from the reports issued by the Commissioners on Convict Enquiry in Ireland before the formation of the present Board; and from the reports of the Board of Directors themselves afterwards. These extracts will justify, and explain many statements which appear elsewhere in these pages. Captain Crofton was in 1853 appointed to the Commission above referred to, and in reply to the question (1470: p. 138) "What was then the state of the Irish Convict Prisons?" The answer made is, "As deplorable as it is possible to conceive; the prisoners were morally and physically prostrate in every way. There was a want of the element of hope in them, of education, and of everything else one would D wish to find in prisoners. Whilst the prisons themselves were overcrowded in a very great degree." Captain Crofton's opinion is corroborated by extracts from the reports of the Governor, and the Superintendent of Convicts in Western Australia. After alluding to the remarkable absence of crime previous to the arrival of certain Irish Convict Ships, the Governor goes on to say that " Some of the Irish prisoners have proved in many instances an exception to this gratifying state of things: and recent experience, and close observation induces the Comptroller-General to hope...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151541307
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151541303
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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