Memorials of Millbank, and chapters in prison history, Volumen1 |
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Memorials of Millbank, and Chapters in Prison History, Volumen1 Arthur Griffiths Vista completa - 1875 |
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Página 190 - In its intention I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what it is that they are doing.
Página 186 - ... confinement in a darkened cell. The necessity for correction is extremely rare, there is not a whip, nor are there any fire-arms within the walls of the prison. " Solitary imprisonment is not only an exemplary punishment, but a powerful agent in the reformation of morals ; it inevitably tends to arrest the progress of corruption. In the silence of the cell, contamination cannot be received or imparted.
Página 261 - To provide for the clothing, the instruction, and the employment of the women ; to introduce them to a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and to form in them, as much as possible, those habits of order, sobriety and industry, which may render them docile and peaceable whilst in prison, and respectable when they leave it.
Página 190 - I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers...
Página 11 - In the preamble of this act (which passed the legislature), a conviction was expressed, that ' if many offenders convicted of crimes for which transportation has been usually inflicted, were ordered to solitary confinement, accompanied by well regulated labour and religious instruction, it might be the means, under Providence, not only of deterring others from the commission of the like crimes, but also of reforming the individuals and inuring them to habits of industry.
Página 20 - No matter how different, or even opposite the purpose: whether it be that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education : in a word, whether it be applied to the purposes of perpetual prisons in the room of death, or prisons for confinement before trial, or penitentiary-houses, or...
Página 20 - Bentham claimed for his plan that it would be found applicable to all kinds of establishments, no matter how different or even opposite the purpose. " Whether it be that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle...
Página 6 - This was by chaining them down on their backs upon a floor, across which were several iron bars, with an iron collar with spikes about their necks, and a heavy iron bar over their legs.
Página 22 - The station of gaoler is not in common account a very elevated one : the addition of contractor has not much tendency to raise it. He little dreamt, when he first launched into the subject, that he was to become a suitor, and perhaps in vain, for such an office. But inventions unpractised might be in want of the inventor : and a situation, thus clipped of emoluments, while it was loaded with obligations, might be in want of candidates. Penetrated, therefore, with the importance of the end, iie would...
Página 190 - I would allow it to be tried 97 in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short; but now, I solemnly declare, that with no rewards or honours could I walk a happy man beneath the open sky by day, or lie me down upon my bed at night, with the consciousness that one human creature, for any length of time, no matter what, lay...