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Author : John Howard
Release : 1777
Genre : Europe
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Book Synopsis State of the Prisons in England and Wales by : John Howard
Download or read book State of the Prisons in England and Wales written by John Howard. This book was released on 1777. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Howard
Release : 1777
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Download or read book The State of the Prisons in England and Wales written by John Howard. This book was released on 1777. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Howard
Release : 1792
Genre : Convicts
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Author : John HOWARD (the Philanthropist.)
Release : 1780
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Book Synopsis The State of the Prisons in England and Wales ... Second Edition by : John HOWARD (the Philanthropist.)
Download or read book The State of the Prisons in England and Wales ... Second Edition written by John HOWARD (the Philanthropist.). This book was released on 1780. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN. HOWARD
Release : 2018-04-22
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Book Synopsis The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. by John Howard, F.R.S. the Fourth Edition by : JOHN. HOWARD
Download or read book The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. by John Howard, F.R.S. the Fourth Edition written by JOHN. HOWARD. This book was released on 2018-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Libraries N023240 With a half-title. Includes: Brossais du Perray's 'Historical remarks and anecdotes on the Castle of the Bastille' (pp.[513]-540), with a separate half-title. Also issued as part of: 'The works of John Howard', [London, 1792]. London: printed for J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1792. [8],540p., plates; 4°
