Chapter I: Front Matter

THE ENGLISH PRISON SYSTEM

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA . MADRAS MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO DALLAS . SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO

THE ENGLISH PRISON SYSTEM

BY

Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, K.C.B.

CHAIRMAN OF THE PRISON COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

AND

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRISON COMMISSION

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1921

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LIST OF CHAPTERS.

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Preface i

CHAPTER.

I. The Meaning of Prison Reform 1

II. The Prison Commission: Offences, and Punishments 18

III. The History of Penal Servitude 23

IV. Penal Servitude to-day 39

V. Preventive Detention 49

VI. Imprisonment 59

VII. The Inquiry of 1894: the Prison Act, 1898: and the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914. 75

VIII. The Borstal System 85

IX. The Handmaids of the Prison System--(1) The Children Act, 1898; (2) The Probation Act, 1907. 101

X. Female Offenders 114

XI. Educative, Moral, and Religious Influences in Prison 124

XII. Labour in English Prisons 131

XIII. (1) Vagrancy; (2) Inebriety 142

XIV. "Patronage" or Aid to Discharged Prisoners: its effect on Recidivism 164

XV. The Medical Service 185

XVI. A Criminological Inquiry in English Prisons 198

XVII. (a) A Short Sketch of the Movement of Crime since 1872: (b) The War, 1914-18. 216

Appendix:--(a) Regulations &c., for Borstal Institutions 231

(b) Regulations for Preventive Detention Prisons 265

Index 268

CONTENTS.

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