Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, Томове 3–41848 |
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Acting Committee adopted anchorites association Asylum attention Auburn system average Bicetre boys building cause cells CELLULAR PRISONS cent chaplain character CHARLES GILPIN committed convicts county prisons crime criminal death discharged disease duty Eastern Penitentiary Eastern State Penitentiary effect Escape from Crime establishment evil favour feet females France friends gaol habits hope House of Refuge human important imprisonment improvement increase influence inmates insanity Inspectors institution instruction jail kind labor Legislature less letter Lord Nugent means ment mental mind MISERIES OF PUBLIC mode moral object observed offences officers opinion penal Pennsylvania Pentonville prison period persons Philadelphia Society philanthropy population present principle prison discipline proper PUBLIC PRISONS punishment readers received reform reformatory regard religious remarks respect seclusion sentence separate confinement separate system tion untried prisoners Van Diemen's Land ventilation whole number
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Страница 197 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Страница 124 - The comparatively innocent are seduced, the unwary are entrapped, and the tendency to crime in offenders, not entirely hardened, is confirmed by the language, the suggestions, and the example of more depraved and systematic criminals.
Страница 25 - Canada, — and 1'41 in Gibraltar ; so that it may be fairly said that the prisoner under separate confinement suffers about as much as the soldier on the choicest spots of the Mediterranean, or in the bracing climate of Canada.
Страница 141 - The main prison contains 408 separate cells, built in two blocks of three stories in height, extending from each wing at right angles with the principal front. The cells open into a corridor...
Страница 160 - By the aids of humanity, their undue and illegal sufferings may be prevented; the links which should bind the whole family of mankind together, under all circumstances, be preserved unbroken: and such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested, as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness. From a conviction of the truth and obligation of these principles, the subscribers have associated themselves under...
Страница 24 - Pennsylvania prison exhibits as few, if not fewer, cases of mental derangement, as any similar institution. Indeed, no instance of insanity has, as yet, occurred in the Eastern Penitentiary, which has not been traced to causes wholly independent of, and either anterior or posterior to, the confinement. Whatever might be the disturbing and stultifying effects of strict seclusion, without labour, without books, without moral instruction, and without daily intercourse with the keepers, certain it is,...
Страница 94 - Inquiry into the alleged tendency of the Separation of Convicts, one from the other, to produce Disease and Derangement. By a citizen of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1849.
Страница 67 - ... which, for want of a better term, may be called unhumanizing, because it tends to weaken and destroy the feelings and affections which are distinctive of the human being, and which raise him above the level of the brute. I have sometimes checked myself in the wish that men of high station and authority would visit these abodes of their less fortunate fellow-creatures, and witness with their own eyes the scenes presented there ; for I have thought that the same end might be answered in a way less...
Страница 128 - If it were the deliberate purpose to establish criminals in all that is evil, and to root out the last remains of virtuous inclination, this purpose could not be more effectually accomplished than by incarceration in county jails as they are with few exceptions constituted and governed.