Author: John HowardPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
State of the Prisons in England and Wales
Author: John HowardThe State of the Prisons in England and Wales
Author: John HowardPublisher:
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons by John Howard (1726-1790) was the first major practical work on prison reform from the standpoint of design, sanitation and methods of operation. Howard embarked on a career of prison reform in 1773, after visiting a local jail in his official capacity as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, where he was appalled not only by the jail's disease-ridden squalor, but by the fact that persons proven innocent, or not formally accused of crime, could still be forcibly detained until they had paid the jailers their customary delivery fees. He suggested to the justices of Bedfordshire that the jailers be paid a salary from county funds in lieu of fees, and was told to find a precedent for this scheme. An exhaustive search of all the counties in England failed to yield even one, but provided Howard with so much evidence of abuse and misery that in 1774 he was able, by testifying before a committee of the House of Commons, to inspire the immediate passage of bills abolishing jailers' fees and calling for improved prison sanitation. Howard then made two tours of Continental jails-- he was particularly impressed by Dutch criminal rehabilitation programs-- and a second round of English prisons, gathering material for the present volume. Its publication resulted in the passage of another bill establishing two penitentiaries modeled on those Howard had seen in Holland, where brutal treatment of prisoners was replaced by solitary confinement, religious instruction and vocational training.--J. Norman.
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
Author: John HowardPublisher:
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Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
“The” State Of The Prisons In England And Wales
Author: John HowardThe State of the Prisons in England and Wales
Author: John HowardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108064523
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 863
Book Description
This 1777 publication, reissued with its substantial 1784 appendix, provides systematic evidence of abuses and poor conditions in European prisons.
State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals
Author: John HowardPublisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The State of the Prisons
Author: John HowardThe State of the Prisons - 200 Years On
Author: Richard WhitfieldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134941463
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In 1777 John Howard wrote The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. Two centuries later, this extraordinary document commemorates his achievements in campaigning for reform. In the spirit of Howard himself, the Howard League for Penal Reform have compiled detailed observations of prisons from Sweden to South Africa, and from India to Nicaragua. The result is a valuable resource which includes unique insights into previously undocumented prison regimes.
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
Author: John HowardPublisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
State of Prisons Eng&Wales
Author: William James ForsythePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415231282
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.