Our Convicts, Volumen2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864 |
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Página 284 - That is found wandering and not having any Home or settled Place of Abode, or proper Guardianship, or visible Means of Subsistence...
Página 326 - ... the task which is laid upon him for his happiness ; it is his duty to fulfil his mission to the utmost of his power ; but it is our duty, the duty of those whom Providence has removed from this awful struggle and placed beyond this fearful danger, manfully, unceasingly, and untiringly to aid by advice, assistance, and example the great bulk of the people, who, without such aid, must almost inevitably succumb to the difficulty of their task. They will not cast from them the aiding hand, and the...
Página 200 - we scarce can sink as low For men at most differ as Heaven and earth, But women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Página 284 - Magistrate (regard being had to his age and to the circumstances of the case), to be dealt with under this Act, the Justices or Magistrate may order him to be sent to a Certified Industrial School.
Página 313 - Committee concurs with some of the most experienced witnesses that have been examined, in the opinion that a great majority of convicted prisoners are open to the same good motives and good impulses which influence other human beings, and, therefore, that a system of encouragement to good conduct, and endeavours to inspire feelings of self-respect, self-reliance, and hopefulness for the future, which have been tried in some of our largest establishments, ought to be adopted, so far as it is practicable,...
Página 58 - The convict learns something very material to his future well-being in the first stage, — he has the advantage of much time devoted to his religious and secular instruction. " He learns the whole bearing of the Irish Convict System...
Página 284 - Any child under the age of fourteen years whose parent represents that he is unable to control him, and that he desires such child to be sent to an industrial school, in pursuance of this Act, and who at the same time gives such undertaking or other security as may be approved by the justices before whom he is brought in pursuance of this Act, to pay all expenses incurred for the maintenance of such child at school...
Página 286 - Those who have not yet subjected themselves to the grasp of the law, but who, by reason of the vice, neglect, or extreme poverty of their parents, are inadmissible to the existing school establishments, and consequently must grow up without any education ; almost inevitably forming part of the " perishing and dangerous classes," and ultimately becoming criminal.
Página 289 - Committee, sound policy requires that this country should promptly adopt measures for the same purpose. " 3. That it appears to this Committee to be established by the evidence, that a large proportion of the present aggregate of crime might be prevented, and thousands of miserable human beings, who have before them, under our present system, nothing but a hopeless career of wickedness and vice, might be converted into virtuous, honest, and industrious citizens, if due care were taken to rescue destitute,...