A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... Prisons • Prison Reformers . John Howard Elizabeth Fry • Jeremy Bentham and his ' Panopticon ' . The Police • Blood - Money • Vagrants Poachers and Smugglers The Education of the Lower Orders Vaccination The Army The Navy The Piratical ...
... Prisons • Prison Reformers . John Howard Elizabeth Fry • Jeremy Bentham and his ' Panopticon ' . The Police • Blood - Money • Vagrants Poachers and Smugglers The Education of the Lower Orders Vaccination The Army The Navy The Piratical ...
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... prisoners were consequently acquitted , not because they were innocent , but because the punishment assignable to ... prisoner had not been tried , cost the man his life.1 Reasons of this character induced Parliament to refuse to listen ...
... prisoners were consequently acquitted , not because they were innocent , but because the punishment assignable to ... prisoner had not been tried , cost the man his life.1 Reasons of this character induced Parliament to refuse to listen ...
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... prisoners , added a constant visitor to the same prison , rejoice in the prospect of transportation , and it is with the greatest difficulty in the world that that spirit can be restrained . When they go off they are shouting and ...
... prisoners , added a constant visitor to the same prison , rejoice in the prospect of transportation , and it is with the greatest difficulty in the world that that spirit can be restrained . When they go off they are shouting and ...
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... prisons were under the direct eye of the legislature . Abuses in Clerkenwell , or in the Bridewell 2 or Tothill Fields ... prisoners . Children of the tenderest age were suffered to herd with hardened felons . Women of the most abandoned ...
... prisons were under the direct eye of the legislature . Abuses in Clerkenwell , or in the Bridewell 2 or Tothill Fields ... prisoners . Children of the tenderest age were suffered to herd with hardened felons . Women of the most abandoned ...
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... prisoner with means was allowed a few slight comforts which the utterly destitute were denied . In most of the metropolitan prisons beds were provided , with fairly clean linen , which prisoners were allowed to occupy for 1s . a night ...
... prisoner with means was allowed a few slight comforts which the utterly destitute were denied . In most of the metropolitan prisons beds were provided , with fairly clean linen , which prisoners were allowed to occupy for 1s . a night ...
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