Author: Rosalind Crone

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0198833830

'Illiterate Inmates' tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed, drawing on evidence from both local and convict prisons.