Remarks upon prison discipline, &c. &c. : in a letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant and magistrates of the county of Essex / by C.C. Western.
- Charles Western, 1st Baron Western
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks upon prison discipline, &c. &c. : in a letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant and magistrates of the county of Essex / by C.C. Western. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![thing 1 saw in the general management of these prisons. The Gaol is an old building, and not formed upon a good plan, but its defects are remedied as far as may be by good arrangement, and the careful superin- tendance of the Governor. The House of Correction is new, and the plan I think good. There are various different and distinct build- ings which the prisoners inhabit, with a se- parate yard attached to each of them: they are single buildings, and only one story above the ground floor, one man only in each cell, which are of sufficient dimensions, dry and airy. A tread-wheel and mill, mill-houses to work in, &c. have been recently established here. The plan of the buildings, machinery, and management, are altogether worthy of par- ticular notice; nothing can be better de- signed, executed, or conducted. Mr. Wilson^s decided opinion, as well as Mr. Orridge’s of Bury, is, that nothing ever was contrived so admirably adapted to the application of cor- rective labour, as the tread-wheel. The work is severe, tedious, and irksome, but not injurious to the human frame: the most artful GoveiDorsJeaven ficial eftects tliat general application impossible to obser when at wi' upn dkeming in theif. lence which a coi Mslpioke. Th cncDiag in that si aad exhaustion of them far 1 when in the ] spi .Ja xi*. S > I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390698_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
