Prisons - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Observations on the state of the English prisons , and the means of improving them; communicated to the Reverend Henry Zouch, a Justice of the Peace, by the Right Honourable Lord Loughborough, Now, Lord High Chancellor of Great-Britain. Published at the request of the Court of Quarter Sessions, held at Pontefract April the 8th, 1793.
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805.Date: [1793]- E-books
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Solitude in imprisonment, with proper profitable labour and a space diet , The most humane and effectual means of bringing malefactors, who have forfeited their lives, or are subject to transportation, to a right sense of their condition; with proposals for salutary prevention: and how to qualify offenders and criminals for happiness in both worlds, and preserve the people, in the enjoyment of the genuine fruits of liberty, and freedom from violence. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- E-books
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Thoughts on penitentiaries. By Jeremiah Fitzpatrick, M.D. Knt. inspector general of prisons
Fitzpatrick, Jeremiah, Sir, ca. 1740-1810.Date: 1790- E-books
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Management of the poor or, a plan, containing the principle and construction of an establishment, in which persons of any description are to be kept under inspection. And In Particular Penitentiary-Houses; Prisons, Houses Of Industry, Work-Houses, Poor-Houses, Manufactories, Mad-Houses, Hospitals, And Schools. With a plan of management. In a series of letters. By Jeremy Bentham, Of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. Illustrated with copper-plates.
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.Date: 1796- E-books
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An account of the present state of the prisons and houses of correction in the home circuit . Taken from a late publication of John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. By Permission of the Author. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, stating The Acts lately passed for improving the Prisons in this kingdom. The good Effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into Execution. The Abuses which still continue where they have been neglected; and The means by which those Abuses may most effectually be corrected.
John HowardDate: [1789]