An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery are Produced Or Prevented, by Our Present System of Prison Discipline |
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Page 14 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 52 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to he seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, . We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 52 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page 118 - The railing was crowded with halfnaked women, struggling together for the front situations with the most boisterous violence, and begging with the utmost vociferation. She felt as if she was going into a den of wild beasts; and she well recollects quite shuddering when the door closed upon her, and she was locked in, with such a herd of novel and desperate companions.
Page 63 - Person shall reside, and there, in open Court, between the Hours of nine in the Morning and two in the Afternoon, take, make, and subscribe the following Declaration and Oath; videlicet. «I AB do hereby declare, That I do profess the Roman Catholick Religion.
Page 127 - In compliance with this appointment, the lord mayor, the .sheriffs, and several of the aldermen attended. The prisoners were .assembled together ; and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bible, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention...
Page 113 - ABOUT four years ago, Mrs. Fry was induced to visit Newgate, by the representations of its state, made by some persons of the Society of Friends. She found the female side in a situation, which no language can describe. Nearly three hundred women, sent there for every gradation of crime, some untried, and...
Page 125 - That there be a yard-keeper chosen from among the women; to inform them when their friends come ; to see that they leave their work with a monitor when they go to the grating, and that they do not spend any time there, except with their friends. If any woman be found disobedient in these respects, the yard-keeper is to report the case to the matron. ; • , 5. That the women be divided into classes, of not more than twelve; and that a monitor be appointed to each class.
Page 101 - His conduct was so remarkable as to engage the attention of the managers, who made him a deputy-steward ; gave him the charge of the doors, to prevent improper persons from going into the hospital, to preserve order in and about the house, and to see that nothing came to or went from it improperly.
Page 16 - ... thieves in London, or as many vagrants, whose rags are alive, and in actual motion with vermin : he may find himself in bed, and in bodily contact, between a robber and a murderer ; or between a man with a foul disease on one side, and one with an infectious disorder on the other. He may spend his days deprived of free air and wholesome exercise. He may be prohibited from following the handicraft on which the subsistence of his family depends. He may be half starved for want of food and clothing...