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English Local Prisons, 1860-1900 - Next Only to Death (Hardcover)
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English Local Prisons, 1860-1900 - Next Only to Death (Hardcover)
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The local prisons of the latter half of the 19th century refined
systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the
maximum sentence of two years local imprisonment to be the most
severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". The
punishment inflicted on prisoners was sometimes carried beyond the
limits of health and sanity. Why was this policy adopted? Who
conceived it? What was it like to endure?;This work examines how
private perceptions and concerns became public policy. It also
traces the move in English government from the rural and
aristocratic to the urban and more democratic. It follows the rise
of the powerful elite of the higher civil service, describes some
of the forces that attempted to oppose it, and provides a window
through which to view the process of state formation. Next only to
the workhouse and the school, local prisons were probably the most
widely experienced civil institution of the times, yet by a curious
oversight this is one of the first scholarly studies of the
subject. The book is based on archive research, and offers an
original account of an important episode in English social, legal
and administrative history.
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