Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection

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I ought to touch this subject with a delicate hand. Many giants of speculation have been this way, and they have laid down principles from which I am compelled to dissent. I am...

But it affords some relief to the mind, in dwelling on this gloomy prospect, to find here and there a ruin less ruined than others--a lonely column not _fallen_; a prostrate pil...

Fired with this rash determination, he entered the shop, took a leg of one of the loom seats, which he cut away with a knife that he had taken for this purpose from a shoe-bench...

In one or the other of these states of suffering, Fane spent much of the short time of life allotted to him after he entered the prison. About the time of his bloody catastrophe...

This man was a harmless lunatic. He never offered the least violence to any one, and was as unfit a subject of punishment as is commonly found. He did not, as might have been ex...

_Warden._ You are not sick; when you are, you shall have all necessary attention. I am not to be imposed on any more by those who are too lazy to work, and therefore pretend tha...

Every man is entitled to the protection of the laws as long as he obeys them; and every transgressor may be legally punished according to the law he has violated; and if the law...

At length, one of the principal officers, and a very sanguine professor and church member, took a different stand and said in so many words--"PREACHING WILL DO NO GOOD HERE." Co...

Woodbury was a man of feeble mind, but of very acute feelings and volatile spirits. To every nerve of his heart liberty was dear, and he was equally sensitive to his separation...

This sketch shows on what principle the prison is conducted. There may be many _minor_ principles. Of these the _reformation_ of the prisoners may be a fraction. Their punishmen...

While engaged as the agent of this Society, Mr. Robbins spent one year in Concord, N. H. and officiated as Chaplain to the State prison. Whether his labors were well directed in...

I am now going to mention particularly what the Rev. enemies of the author did to injure him, while he was in B., and after he left it.--They tried to shake public confidence in...

It is high time to commence a reform in the conduct of professors; and no where is this reform more needed than in the principle of the text. I will not stop to argue this point...

Judge THACHER, of Boston, says, 'by the confession of those who administer our Penitentiaries, it is found, that most of the evils of this system of punishment flow from the alm...

"MODE OF PUNISHMENT.--The punishments used in these institutions now claim our attention. These are stripes, chains, and solitary confinement, with hunger. In regard to these di...

They have acted on a mistaken theory. They have confided in the integrity and benevolence of those to whose immediate care prisoners are committed, where nothing is more true th...

"All glorious Eternal! we tremble and fear; How awful this place is, we know Thou art here! In thy dreadful presence adoring we fall. Well pleas'd to be nothing, and Thou all in...

1. Should your pious labors be blessed to the reformation of any part of these offenders, _not only will they become happy in the enjoyment of virtue and religion, but a very gr...