V Bailey English Prison Penal Culture
English Prisons, Penal Culture, and the Abatement of Imprisonment, 1895-1922
Author(s): Victor Bailey
Source: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 285-324
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British
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English Prisons, Penal Culture,and the
Abatementof Imprisonment,1895-1922
Victor Bailey
The prison method is callous, regular and monotonous and produces great mental and physical strain. The deprivation of liberty is extremely cruel and if it is attended with treatment that deadens the spiritual nature and fails to offer any stimulus to the imagination, that coarsens and humiliates, then it stands condemned. (Arthur Creech Jones, conscientious objector, Wandsworth Prison,
1916-19)1
The nineteenth century was the century of the penitentiary. Public and physical punishments (from whipping to the death penalty) were gradually replaced by the less visible, less corporal sanction of imprisonment. By the start of the Victorian era, imprisonment was the predominant penalty in the system of judicial
Author(s): Victor Bailey
Source: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 285-324
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British
Studies
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English Prisons, Penal Culture,and the
Abatementof Imprisonment,1895-1922
Victor Bailey
The prison method is callous, regular and monotonous and produces great mental and physical strain. The deprivation of liberty is extremely cruel and if it is attended with treatment that deadens the spiritual nature and fails to offer any stimulus to the imagination, that coarsens and humiliates, then it stands condemned. (Arthur Creech Jones, conscientious objector, Wandsworth Prison,
1916-19)1
The nineteenth century was the century of the penitentiary. Public and physical punishments (from whipping to the death penalty) were gradually replaced by the less visible, less corporal sanction of imprisonment. By the start of the Victorian era, imprisonment was the predominant penalty in the system of judicial