Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England, in Company with Elizabeth Fry: With Some General Observations on the Subject of Prison Discipline

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A. Constable and Company, 1819 - Всего страниц: 170
Elizabeth Fry was John Gurney's sister. Together, the pair visited 33 prisons in August and September 1818, including those in York, Liverool, Manchester, Newcastle, Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glascow, with general remarks following the specific commentary on each jail. Shows the conditions under which prisoners were confined before being transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land. Samuel Marsden is mentioned. An important record of Fry's lifelong concern with the incarcerated.

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Стр. 169 - Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world : for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me . . . Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Стр. 152 - To provide for the clothing, the instruction, and the employment of the women ; to introduce them to a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and to form in them, as much as possible, those habits of order, sobriety and industry, which may render them docile and peaceable whilst in prison, and respectable when they leave it.
Стр. 31 - The several stories of this building consist respectively of a long gallery, with small but commodious and airy cells on each side. Every gallery is divided in the middle by the central stone staircase, the men prisoners being confined on one side of the house, the women on the other. The cells on one side of the galleries are for sleeping, those on the other for working. Every prisoner occupies a sleeping and a working cell, the Bridewell being intended only for solitary confinement.
Стр. 161 - I beg to add to the subscription for defraying the expences incurred in carrying on your benevolent exertions for the reform and instruction of those unhappy persons confined within that dreary receptacle of misery and woe, the prison of Newgate, where I first learned, by the kind exertions of Christian and benevolent friends, to flee the downward road that leads to hell, and to look up for pardon and deliverance to Christ my Saviour and my God, through whose atoning blood I now seek remission of...
Стр. 41 - Above the watch-house, on a steep hill impending over the prison, is the governor's house, from which there is a complete inspection over the several yards, but not into the day-rooms. Of the seven compartments to which I have alluded, one is attached to the infirmary, one is for debtors, one for women criminals, one for untried men, and three for male convicts. In the upper * Visited ninth month (Sept.) 5th, in company with the Lord Provost Mackenzie and other gentlemen.
Стр. 121 - ... and distinguished by a warm desire to promote the best interests of mankind, — men not only of vigilance and intrepidity, but of smooth temper and real benevolence. The turnkey's duties are also very important; he is frequently in company with the prisoners ; and his influence over them may be very advantageous or very hurtful. The turnkey who is himself of quiet, steady, and sober habits, will encourage the same habits in the prisoners, by the force of his example; and if to these qualifications...
Стр. 141 - Scriptures be read to the prisoners, (not by one of their own body but by some judicious superintendent,) every morning and evening, and let time be set apart daily for the instruction of the ignorant ; let the utmost care be taken to prevent all gaming, swearing, and other excesses ; let a temporary solitary confinement, under the direction of a visiting magistrate, be the punishment of those prisoners who are refractory ; and, on the other hand, let obedience and good behaviour be encouraged by...
Стр. 71 - Oct. 21st, 1818, was £916 19 5 The amount of earnings, for the same period, . . . 940 12 10 The other circumstance to which I allude, is the small number of re-commitments. Of the felons who are committed to this prison, only four per cent, return to it. Of the misdemeanants, those who are re-committed are somewhat more numerous; but, on putting the two classes together, the average of returns upon the whole number is not considered to exceed Jive in the hundred.
Стр. 22 - As we passed through Haddingtonshire, we were struck with the richness and fertility of the country, and with the uncommon abundance of the crops which it produces. It is considered one of the wealthiest counties in Scotland. Surely, then, we may indulge the pleasing expectation, that the inhabitants of this county, and especially its very liberal magistrates, will no longer suffer it to continue without such a prison as will tend to the reformation of offenders ; such a one, at any rate, as will...
Стр. 109 - ... of the occasional permission to step out of his cell into the gallery. The only place for the admission of air into his cell, when the door is shut, is an aperture in the wall between the cell and the gallery. The wall appeared to me several feet thick, and the smaller end of the aperture about eighteen or twenty inches square, with strong iron bars let in. The general appearance of this prison in the interior is dirty and disgusting-, but the cell of the poor convict was horribly loathsome....

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