Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Manner in Which Sentences of Penal Servitude Are Carried Out in England
We have tried, at various times, as portions of our penal system in the colonies, simple deportation or banishment; - we have tried assigning convicts to live as servants in families of free people - we have tried retain ing them under charge of the Government, but hiring out 'their labour to free people for the benefit of Government - we have tried plant ing them out in bodies in a condition of semi freedom, to work with pay for Government until employers hired them - and we 'have tried, in England, the exact reverse of this, viz. - keeping them in isolation for lengthened periods in cells.
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