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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    ON jPRISOJYS. In considering the objects to which a community should attend, in the erection and management of prisons, it is of importance for us to fix precisely in our minds, the proper ends to which prisons should be destined, among the public establishments of a country. The justifiable ends of a prison, seem, to me, to be the following: to keep in custody the accused, till the period of their trial; to keep in custody the condemned, till the sentence of the law be executed; and, lastly, to punish by confinement, particular offences. To imprison a fellow-creature, on the mere accusation of guilt, can be only justified from necessity. Accord- ingly, in the case of lesser crimes, other means are employed, to secure the appearance of the accused on the day of trial. But, in the case of great crimes, the A
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