Category: History - American
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It is dangerous—it is at least wrong—to make a low estimate of the labors that take a human being from the cells of a prison, when his character is such as to lead to a belief t...
4. Part 4Though the publication of many striking instances of reformation that illustrate the effect of direct personal dealing with the prisoner has been forborne, lest the peculiarity...
3. Part 3While on the subject of the County Prison, it may not be amiss to present a few statistics regarding the number of those who have been its inmates during the year 1863. The whol...
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9. Part 9We notice one circumstance in the Report of the New York Society worthy of attention, viz., that the agents of that Society have used their influence with the courts to increase...
2. Part 2But solitary confinement we have said is not recommended by the Society. That species of penalty might be as cruel to the convict as the associated imprisonment is unjust to soc...
8. Part 8The “Prison Reports,” physical and moral, in Great Britain, are all to the Government of the nation; and every part of every city jail seems to work with as distinct a reference...
7. Part 7No one unacquainted with the life of a drunkard, but especially of an habitual female drunkard, can form a correct idea of the irrepressible thirst which the constant use of int...
6. Part 6With these remarks we are led to the consideration of the subject with which we commenced this part of our Report, namely, THE MAGISTRACY, and their alleged complicity in the ev...
10. Part 10There are men who seem formed to discharge a certain class of duties, beyond which they lack zeal and fail of efficiency. But Townsend Sharpless seemed to fulfil the injunction...
11. Part 11Purves, William Parrish, Joseph, M. D. Poulson, Charles A. Perot, William S. Perot, Francis Perot, Charles P. Perot, T. Morris Patterson, Joseph Patterson, Morris Patterson, Wil...