Penal Servitude
Author: National Committee on Prisons
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 240
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Helen Johnston
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0228009650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place for nearly a century. Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude during this time. Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey, and David Cox detail the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1850s and the building of the prison estate to the classification of prisoners within it. Exploring life in the convict prison through the experiences of the people who were subjected to it, the authors shed light on various details such as prison diet, education, and labour. What they find reveals the internal regimes; the everyday endurances, conformity, resistance, and rule breaking of convicts; and the interactions with the warders, medical officers, and governors that shaped daily life in the system. Reconstructing the life histories of hundreds of convict prisoners from detailed prison records, criminal registers, census data, and personal correspondence, Penal Servitude illuminates the lives of those who experienced long-term imprisonment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: William Beauchamp Nevill
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: E. Stagg Whitin
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Published: 2015-07-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781330669235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Penal Servitude The material contained in the following pages is but a brief summary of the findings of the National Committee on Prison Labor, on which the members of the Committee have based the following resolution, November 24th, 1911: "After one year of study the National Committee on Prison Labor found the preponderance of evidence to be in favor of the state use system; after a second year of study and further investigation, the Committee is in a position to declare as prejudicial to the welfare of the prisoner, the prisoner's family and the public, the contract system of prison labor. The Committee therefore declares itself opposed to the contract system of prison labor and to every other system which exploits his labor to the detriment of the prisoner." To the members of the Committee: - Thomas R. Sheer (Chairman), R. Montgomery Schell (Treasurer). Percy A. Atherton, Mrs. Samuel J. Barrows, Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Alexander Johnson, B. A. Larger, Samuel McCune Lindsay, John Mitchell, Raymond Robbins, Henry Solomon, Leslie Willis Sprague (Executive Committee). John R. Alpine, Carol Aronovici, William S. Bennet, Mrs. Elmer Blair, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Clarence Burns, John R. Commons, Edgar T. Davies, Miles M. Dawson, William H. DeLacy, John P. Frey, Hamilton Holt, Richard Lloyd Jones, Ben Lindsey, Alfred E. Lunt, Julian Mack, John B. Mayo, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Charles P. Neill, Thomas M. Osborne, James Bronson Reynolds, Charles Edward Russell, Louis Livingston Seaman, Clarence J. Shearn, John J. Sonsteby, Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, Mrs. Perry Starkweather, Warren S. Stone, Mrs. William Cumming Story, Charles H. Strong, Mrs. Eva McDonald Valesh, Edwin P. Wentworth, John Williams, Miss Mary Wood and others (General Committee). the author makes due acknowledgment, and trusts that the work, which has but just begun, will be continued in the same broad spirit until it can be said with truth that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, not even as punishment for crime, exists within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Penal Servitude Interim Committee
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 20
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