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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![ham. 'Hie diet is one pound and a half per diem of bread, the bran only taken out; one quart of oatmeal gruel at eight o'clock in the morning, and one quart of soup made of shins of beef, &c. at one. The prisoners are al- lowed some little share of what their labour may earn. From Northampton I went to Warwick, and visited both Gaol and House of Correc- tion ; the gaol is a fine stone building, with a handsome fapade to the street; it is three stories high above the ground floor; the cells are large and airy, and their dimensions such as to admit of three beds in each. They are often very much crowded, in consequence of numbers brought in from Birmingham, and other manufacturing places. There are only two yards for the male prisoners, but one of them, which is very large, has two or three day rooms, which open into the yard; each day room is distinctly appropriated, according to the different descriptions of offenders ; but the yard is common to the whole number, which is very considerable. To obviate any bad consequences which might result from this circumstance, they adopt a method, which I I leid, * I gi^lii; teispa i tlieiii, and by liis pi I aJ] that sort of ffli ■ mioht be carried oi] I B ! intkirsirmsroiwd i Theksareioa { pretty constant emplo and other occupatio; i ®2nufacturinfftowi)s ,> a, “'Slit, (j “Itlllsi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22390698_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
