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Penal Servitude - Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853-1948 (Hardcover)
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Penal Servitude - Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853-1948 (Hardcover)
Series: States, People, and the History of Social Change
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Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to
Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal
servitude offered the most severe form of punishment - short of
death - in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place
for nearly a century. Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive
study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those
who were sentenced to penal servitude during this time. Helen
Johnston, Barry Godfrey, and David Cox detail the administration
and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1850s and the
building of the prison estate to the classification of prisoners
within it. Exploring life in the convict prison through the
experiences of the people who were subjected to it, the authors
shed light on various details such as prison diet, education, and
labour. What they find reveals the internal regimes; the everyday
endurances, conformity, resistance, and rule breaking of convicts;
and the interactions with the warders, medical officers, and
governors that shaped daily life in the system. Reconstructing the
life histories of hundreds of convict prisoners from detailed
prison records, criminal registers, census data, and personal
correspondence, Penal Servitude illuminates the lives of those who
experienced long-term imprisonment in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
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