Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849The great question of Secondary Punishments has now been...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849

The great question of Secondary Punishments has now been settled by experience, so far as the mother country is concerned. It is now known that imprisonment has no effect whatever, either in deterring from crime, or in reforming criminals. Government, albeit most unwilling to recur to the old system of transportation, has been compelled to do so by the unanimous voice of the country; by the difficulty of finding accommodation for the prodigious increase of prisoners in the jails of the kingdom; and by the still greater difficulty, in these days of cheapness and declining incomes, of getting the persons intrusted with the duty of providing additional prison accommodation, to engage in the costly and tedious work of additional erections. An order in council has expressly, and most wisely, authorised a return to transportation, under such regulations as seem best calculated to reform the convicts, and diminish the dread very generally felt in the colonies, of being flooded with an inundation of crime from the mother country. And the principal difficulty felt now is, to find a colony willing to receive the penal settlers, and incur the risks thought to be consequent on their unrestricted admission. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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