Considerations on the defects of prisons, and their present system of regulation : submitted to the attention of the gentlemen of the county of Gloster, in the course of their proceedings on a plan of reform. To which are added, some general reflections on the subject; addressed to the members of the legislature / By Sir G. O. Paul.

  • Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1784
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Considerations on the defects of prisons, and their present system of regulation : submitted to the attention of the gentlemen of the county of Gloster, in the course of their proceedings on a plan of reform. To which are added, some general reflections on the subject; addressed to the members of the legislature / By Sir G. O. Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/100 (page 7)
    £ 1 ] Time, not content with purfuing Mifery into every the moft naufeous Dungeon of the re® moteft Prifon of thefe Kingdoms, (but feeing the fame Spirit of Abufe and Neglect pervade them all, without one Precedent of Reform) he took the Refolution to extend his Inveftigation to the Prifons of the more arbitrary States of Europe;—He there found innumerable Inftances of Examples worthy Imitation, not one that did Credit to this Country, on Comparifon.—His Obfervations he has laid before the World, with a laborious precifion, that vouches for their Au¬ thenticity, and will juftify a Reafoning on the FaCts, without further Enquiry.—-He is now continuing his Purfuits in Ireland, with Intent to re-publifh his Works, with additional Obfervations on the Gaols he has revifited.-®- He has already favoured a Gentleman with his intended Remark on our County Prifon, <c Thafr it has all the Imperfections he had ten Years ^ before fubmitted to the Public.”* After fuch an Introduction, I fhall probably be conceived the Favourer of an abftraCt Syftem * His humane Reprefentations were heard before Parlia¬ ment, and produced two Statutes of the 14th Geo. III. The one for the Relief from Fees of Prifoners acquitted $ the other, for preferring the Health of Prifoners,—on which A&s there is a Note of Mr. Burne’s fo much to the Pur- pofe, that I cannot but refer the Reader to it, in P. 344. Vollaft Edition.