Prison discipline; and the advantages of the separate system of imprisonment, with a detailed account of the discipline now pursued in the new County Gaol, at Reading Volume 1 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...plainly the error they rejected. The aspect of the most gloomy gaol, though its exhibition of fetters is offensive to the well-disposed, is not found to be repulsive to the vicious. Passing through the gateway, over which the scaffold is erected when the sad spectacle of an execution is afforded, and proceeding into the court yard, at a short distance on the left, is the entrance to the women's prison, entirely separated from the prison for men, into which the females never enter, excepting to attend divine service in the chapel; to and from which they are conducted without ever being seen by criminals of the other sex. The arrangements of this building, which contains thirty cells, with requisite accommodation in other respects, are so similar to the larger prison, that a particular description appears to be unnecessary. Again crossing the court yard, the visitor, on being admitted within the principal entrance to the gaol, finds a descent on either side which will lead him to the basement. In this part he first observes ten cells, light and airy, and furnished with all that the prisoner may require during the first few hours of his confinement: these are called the reception cells. Proceeding from them he passes various store-rooms, the kitchen, the Warders' mess-room, and reaches four cells, a number happily sufficient for their purpose. If courageous enough to enter one of these, and to allow its double doors to be closed upon him, the inmate may realise darkness as intense as imagination can conceive. These cells, used only for the punishment of offences committed within the prison, are similar in construction to those which we shall hereafter describe. The only additional, but generally very effectual punishment of confinement in them, is...

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