A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
I. To furnish the Prisoners with a constant supply of
wholesome _Food_, not limited in quantity, but adequate to
each man's desires.
II. To keep them _clad_ in a state of tightness and
neatness, superior to what is usual even in the Improved
Prisons.
III. To keep them supplied with _separate Beds_ and Bedding,
competent to their situations, and in a state of cleanliness
scarcely any where conjoined with liberty.
IV. To insure to them a sufficient supply of artificial
_warmth_ and _light_, whenever the season renders it
necessary: and thereby save the necessity of taking them
prematurely from their work, at such seasons (as in other
places) as well as preserve them from suffering by the
inclemency of the weather.
V. To keep constantly from them, in conformity to the
practice so happily received, every kind of _strong_ and
spirituous liquor; unless where ordered in the way of
medicine.
VI. To maintain them in a state of inviolable, though
mitigated seclusion, in _assorted_ companies, without any of
those opportunities of promiscuous association, which in
other places, disturb, if not destroy, whatever good effect
can have been expected from occasional solitude.
VII. To give them an interest in their work, by allowing
them a share in the produce.
VIII. To convert the prison into a _school_, and, by an
extended application of the principle of _the Sunday
Schools_, to return its inhabitants into the world
instructed, at least as well as in ordinary schools, in the
most useful branches of vulgar learning, as well as in some
trade or occupation, whereby they may afterwards earn their
livelihood. Extraordinary culture of extraordinary talents
is not, in this point of view, worth mentioning: it would be
for his own advantage to give them every instruction by
which the value of their labour may be increased.
IX. To pay a penal sum for every _escape_, with or without
any default of his, irresistible violence from without
excepted; and this without employing _irons_ on any
occasion, or in any shape.
X. To provide them with _spiritual_ and _medical_
Assistants, constantly living in the midst of them, and
incessantly keeping them in view.
XI. To pay a sum of money for every one who _dies_ under his
care, taking thereby upon him the insurance of their lives
for an ordinary premium: and that at a rate grounded on an
average of the number of deaths, not among imprisoned
Felons, but among persons of the same ages in a state of
liberty within the Bills of Mortality.
XII. To lay for them the foundation-stone of a _provision
for old age_, upon the plan of the _Annuity Societies_.
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