English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death by Professor Sean McConville, Sean McConville

English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death

Professor Sean McConville, Sean McConville

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The local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only t...

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