Report On the Discipline And Management of the Convict Prisons. 1850
Report On the Discipline And Management of the Convict Prisons. 1850
Joshua Jebb, Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons
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A ticket-of-leave in one of the colonies. Pentonville and Portland Prisons may be taken as examples of the first and second periods of probation. The third is a revocable pardon, and the holder of it is subject to many restrictions. With reference to the general system, I would observe that no uniform punishment that was ever devised would pro- vide for all cases. Its very uniformity would be ill adapted to meet the infinite variety of circumstances that arise, and prove the greatest source of ...its unequal pressure upon the different subjects on which it would be brought to bear. If separate confinement be considered a privilege, or be dis- regarded, by an educated criminal, the labour of quarrying on the heights of Portland or Dartmoor would wear a very for- bidding aspect; and the further prospect of being compelled to engage and work for wages in a distant colony, under many restrictions, would be even more distasteful. The majority of convicts, however, dread separate confine* Digitized by VjOOQIC of the Convict Prisons.
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