Observations on the Treatment of Convicts in Ireland
Author: Edward Balme Wheatley Balme
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformative account of Irish and English systems set up to deal with convicts formerly sentenced to transportation to Australia. The English justices recommend certain Irish practices to combat recidivism in the enlightened but not entirely effectual system in operation at the prison at Wakefield, which was modelled on Pentonville and its system of separate confinement.