Parliamentary Papers, Volume 31H.M. Stationery Office, 1854 |
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Page iii - Queen's Most Excellent Majesty MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY...
Page 247 - ... may examine any persons touching such offences, and may determine thereupon, and may punish all such offences by ordering any offender to close confinement in the refractory or solitary cells, and by keeping such offenders upon bread and water only, for any term not exceeding three days.
Page 441 - Name ; and such Journal shall be kept in the Prison, but shall regularly be laid before the Justices for their Inspection at every Quarter Sessions, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Sessions, in proof of the same having been there produced...
Page 441 - Surgeon has reason to believe that the mind of a prisoner is, or is likely to be, injuriously affected by the discipline or treatment, he shall report the case in writing to the Governor...
Page xxxiv - was led in the pursuit of his objects [of promoting the reformation of the prisoners and the well-being of society] to sanction the infliction of punishments which were not warranted by the law, and the employment of which was the more to be regretted, inasmuch as such a course is apt to lead to the use, in the hands of persons not restrained by the same benevolent feelings, of practices equally illegal and more objectionable, from their greater frequency and their general severity.
Page 26 - Whenever the medical officer has reason to believe that the mind of a prisoner is or is likely to be injuriously affected by the discipline or treatment, he shall report the case in writing to the governor, together with such directions as he may think proper, and he shall call the attention of the chaplain to any prisoner who appears to require his special notice.
Page 180 - Mother — I write these few lines to you, hoping to find you in good health, as it leaves me at present.
Page 247 - ... upon another, when no dangerous wound or bruise is given; profane cursing and swearing ; any indecent behaviour, and any irreverent behaviour at chapel (all of which are declared to be offences...
Page xxvii - or keeper is by this Act empowered to punish, the said gaoler or keeper shall " forthwith report the same to the visiting justices, or one of them, for the time
Page 148 - The governor shall, without delay, call the attention of the medical officer to any prisoner whose state of mind or body appears to require attention, and shall carry into effect the written directions of the medical officer respecting alterations of the discipline or treatment of any such prisoner.