Remarks on prisons / By Stevenson MacGill.

  • Stevenson Macgill
Date:
1810
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Credit: Remarks on prisons / By Stevenson MacGill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Majesty’s reign. By this statute, it is provided; “ it: shall be lawful, for the justices of peace, at their general or quarter sessions, or any adjournment thereof, from time to time, to order such sum, or sums, of money, to be paid out of the county rate, towards assisting such prisoners, of every description, as, being confined within the said goals, or other places of confinement, are not able to work, or, being able, cannot procure employment sufficient to sustain themselves by their industry, or who may not be otherwise provided for, by virtue of any law, statute, or of any custom or order, such food and raiment, as the said justices shall, from time to time, think neces- sary for the support of health; and such money shall, accordingly, be applied in conformity to directions to be given by the said justices.” By the same statute, justices are empowered to make bye-laws, for enforcing, among prisoners of all descriptions, cleanliness, temperance, decent and orderly behaviour. In Scotland, the statute expressly says, that the pris- oners are to be kept at their “ own expenses.” But in the case of poor prisoners, who aie criminally convicted, the statute ordains, u commissioners and justices, at their quarter-sessions, to rate every parish for a weekly pro- portion, for the entertainment of these poor prisoners, providing they do not exceed the sum of five shillings Scots money.” By this statute, only persons convicted had a maintenance provided by the public. This defect was supplied by the general statute of George I, for
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