Il sistema penitenziario d'Inghilterra e d'Irlanda

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Tipogragía Artero e Comp., 1874 - 278 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 10 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Pàgina 74 - The great advantage resulting would be, that criminals, whose habits probably had previously been idle, would thus be habituated not only to labour, but to form some agreeable association with the idea of labour. Every step a man took in the tread-wheel, he would be walking out of prison ; every stroke of the spade would be cutting a passage for restoration to society.
Pàgina 29 - and amending the laws relating to the building, repairing, " and regulating of certain gaols and houses of correction
Pàgina 28 - An Act for the further and more adequate punishment of persons convicted of manslaughter, and of servants convicted of robbing their masters, and of accessories before the fact to grand larceny, and certain other felonies.
Pàgina 29 - An Act for amending an Act of the last session of Parliament, relating to the building, repairing, and enlarging of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction, and for procuring Information as to the state of all other Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales...
Pàgina 33 - The great majority of the officers were a cunning and extortionate crew, practising every species of duplicity and chicanery From one end of the prison to the other a vast illicit commerce prevailed, at a rate of profit so exorbitant as none but the most elastic consciences could have devised and sustained. The law forbade every species of indulgence, and yet there was not one that was not easily purchasable. The first question asked of a prisoner was — ' Had he any money, or anything that could...
Pàgina 23 - To enable the East India company to raise a further sum of money upon bond, instead of increasing their capital stock ; and to alter and amend an act, passed in the 47th year of his present majesty, relative thereto.
Pàgina 13 - After this he was carried into the strong room, where, besides the other irons, they fixed on his neck and hands an iron instrument called a collar, like a pair of tongs: and he, being a large, lusty man, when they screwed the...
Pàgina 28 - An Act to repeal so much of the several acts passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of Elizabeth, the fourth of George the First, the fifth and eighth of George the second, as inflicts capital punishment on certain offences therein specified, and to provide more suitable and effectual punishment for such offences...
Pàgina 199 - Ridgway. 2. Irish Tracts and Wakefield Figures in relation to Convict Discipline in Ireland, by John T. Burt, Chaplain of Birmingham Burrough Prison. London : Longman & Co. 3. Irish Convict Reform : the Intermediate Prisons a Mistake, by an Irish Prison Chaplain. Dublin : McGlashan & Gill, 1863. 4. Convict Systems and Transportation, by Sir Walter Crofton, CB London : Wm.

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