Written in 1921 by the Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and Wales, this account explains what prison reform meant to those who carried it out. Ruggles-Brise traces the history of penal servitude, preventive detention, the inquiry of 1894 and the Prison Act of 1898, and the treatment of women, young offenders and habitual criminals.
An authoritative insider’s record of early twentieth-century penal reform, for students of law and social history. Download the free EPUB.