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Allison T

Life in Jail | Prison Life in the 1800s - 0 views

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  • In Inveraray most male prisoners made herring nets or picked oakum. Some with special skills were employed at shoemaking, tailoring or joinery work. Female prisoners picked oakum, knitted stockings or sewed.
  • In their cell, they were provided with a hammock, mattress, blankets, sheets, a pillow, towel, comb, spoon and salt cup. Each cell had a stool, box and chamber pot with lid
  • wooden "guard beds" with wooden pillows
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  • For dinner a female prisoner who was unfit for work would receive 1 1/2 pints of soup and 6 ounces of bread; while a male prisoner who was fit for work would receive 2 pints of soup and 12 ounces of bread. Male prisoners weighing more than 12 stones (without boots) and female prisoners weighing more than 11 stones (without shoes) were entitled to receive an extra 1 ounce of cheese and 4 ounces of bread daily
Maya H

Newgate Prison | Article | World Book Student - 1 views

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prison prison reform

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  • 13, Elizabeth Fry, a British social reformer, began working to improve the conditions of the prison and the treatment of the inmates, especially the women and their children. Until Fry's policies were established, women, children, debtors, and convicted criminals were held together in open cells. In 1858, the interior was rebuilt with single cells.See also Fry, Elizabeth Gurney; Old Bailey.
Allison T

Lamenting the Greater Fall: 19th Century Prison Reform and The Women's Prison Associati... - 0 views

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  • The WPA began as the "Female Department" of the PANY in 1845
  • attended to the specific needs of incarcerated women
  • Female convicts seated outside Sing Sing prison
Maya H

Fry, Elizabeth Gurney | Article | World Book Student - 0 views

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prison reform

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  • Fry promoted humane care and treatment of prisoners, especially women and their children. From her first visit to London's notorious Newgate Prison in 1813 until her death,
  • separate facilities for women, religious education, and the training in meaningful work for all inmates. She also argued for the prohibition of alcohol in jails.
Allison T

ReformProject - prison_reform_19th_century - 1 views

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  • she began to help inmates who were mentally ill in the United States.
  • nt has been a method of keeping peace and keeping society civil since the dawn of
  • the Middle Ages
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  • Enforcement has been a method of keeping peace and keeping society civil since the dawn of civilization.
  • Because she thought that the mentally ill were so mistreated, she took matters to the courts and won
  • Dorothea Dix
  • In addition, she helped to found thirty-two mental hospitals, a school for the blind, and many nursing training facilities
  • She was strict in her criteria for women that she would train, and she was very impatient. For this, she lost the support of the United States Sanitary Commission and other groups that had helped her begin her training.
  • Because there were so many prisoners, it was chaotic, and guards had to use torture to keep them in line
  • Eliza Farnham
  • a well-known philanthropist, feminist, phrenologist, and author
  • Farnham removed the silence rule, added an educational program, and advocated such luxuries as decorations, recreational activities, and leisure activities.
  • prison reformist.
  • Sing Sing Prison
  • Sing Sing Prison
  • 1844.
  • Allison T on 26 Feb 13
     
    One of the best methods to keep peace in society is to take the offenders and remove them from society.
Allison T

Prison History - Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility - 1 views

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  • Children were separated out from adult prisoners for the first time, although so little accountability was built into early juvenile-justice systems that conditions rapidly became far worse than those for adults
  • despite the curricula and activities of the reformatory movement, prison conditions deteriorated to a struggle for control in inhumane and hostile conditions.
Bryce M

SIRS: Prison Reform - 1 views

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Allison T

Reform Movements in 19th Century America - 1 views

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  • Prison reform--rehabilitation of criminals attempted to counter the tendency of prisons to create more hardened criminals. Work seen as way to reform criminals.
  • Abolishing of public hangings in many states
  • Reduction in crimes punishable by death
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  • Abandoning flogging and other cruel punishments
  • Dorothea Dix investigated and reported treatment of insane and led to creation of humane institutions
  • Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources" http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
  • Allison T on 27 Feb 13
     
    movements of the 19th century
Hailey E

temperance movement, prison reform, education reform, women's rights, labor reform Imag... - 3 views

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    Lots of good info. on all reforms ;)
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