The English Prison SystemRuggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
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The English Prison System
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
Prisons -- Great Britain
Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies, early history, 165
" " " " under Act of 1877, 167
" " " " Conference of 1878, 169
" " " " and co-ordination of effort, 15
" " " " scheme of 1896, 171
" " " " " 1913, 175
" " " " Central Committee of, 178
(See also "Borstal Association" and "Central Association")
Dover Harbour, last Public Works, 13
Drunkenness, Habitual, (See also 'Alcoholism' and 'Inebriety'), 154
" " statistics of, 115, 225
Du Cane, Sir E., 71, 73, 75
Earnings of prisoners, 138
Economy in administration, 73
Education in prisons, 6, 121
Elementary Education (Defective & Epileptic Children) Acts
1899 & 1914, 105, 106
Elmira State Reformatory, 91
Employment of prisoners (See 'Labour')
Female prison population, statistics, 114, 223
" " " and recidivism, 115, 122
" convicts, 47
" prisoners in Preventive Detention, 58
" " superintendence by female staff, &c., 114, 122
" under the Borstal System, 118
Fines, committals in default of payment, 20, 224
" release on part-payment, 79, 82
" 'supervision' until payment, 82
First Division prisoners, 71, 78
Gibraltar Prison, 27
Gloucester Refuge for discharged prisoners, 166
Goring, Dr. Chas. "A Criminological Inquiry", 198
Grant-Wison, Sir W., 92, 174
Gratuities, prisoners'--early convict system, 27
" high rate of, condemned, 31
" maximum earnable reduced to £3, 36
" English & continental systems, 165
" abolition of in Local Prisons, 175
" retained for certain classes, 180
Habitual Criminals Act, 1869, 36
Habitual Inebriates (see 'Inebriety')
Habitual Offenders Division, proposed, 39, 50
Hard Labour, definition of phrase, 60, 66, 134
" and Committee of 1863, 67
" and the cellular system, 66
" provisions of Act of 1865, 68,134
" " " 1877, 70
" present methods of enforcing, 77
" and the Act of 1914, 83
Heredity and environment, 209
Holloway Prison, 114
Hospital Staff of Prisons, 197
Howard, John, 23, 60, 62
Hulks, The, 26
Indeterminate sentence, the, 55
Individualization of prisoners, 75, 93
Industrial labour in Prisons, 136
" prosperity and criminal statistics, 160
Inebriety, Committee of 1872, 154
" Act of 1879, 155
" Home Office Inquiry, 1892, 155
" Act of 1898, 155, 157
" Types of inmates in Certified Reformatories, 156
" Infrequent use of Act of 1898, 158
" Committee of 1908, 158, 162
" Mental state of inmates, 161
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