Author Name: ANON
Title: TREATMENT OF TREASON-FELONY CONVICTS.
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Type: Government Publication
Edition: First Edition
Size: Folio
Publisher: London HMSO 1871
Seller ID: 000008
Two volumes in one, 60pp and 527pp. NEWLY BOUND in black cloth with paper title label. Small Law Society stamps to titles and last pages. Title page of Minutes repaired. Following allegations of ill-treatment to prisoners under sentence of penal servitude in prisons in England for the crime of treason-felony, this report was commissioned by Parliament and presented in 1871. Looks at the treatment, diet, discipline etc. with twenty-six names listed in the Appendix, giving details of their place of birth, marital status, religion, sentence and prisons where held. The male prisoners were confined in Millbank, Pentonville, Chatham, Portsmouth, Portland, Woking, Dartmoor, Portsmouth and Brixton and females in Woking and Fulham. The full responses to a questionnaire are included giving prisoners views as well as those of doctors, gaolers and others involved in their daily life.
CONVICTS PRISONS PRISONERS SOCIOLOGY TRUE CRIME CRIMINOLOGY
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