Appendix to the state of the prisons in England and Wales, &c. ... : Containing a farther account of foreign prisons and hospitals, with additional remarks on the prisons of this country / By John Howard.

  • Howard, John, 1726-1790.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Appendix to the state of the prisons in England and Wales, &c. ... : Containing a farther account of foreign prisons and hospitals, with additional remarks on the prisons of this country / By John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gentlemen, who daily vifit the prifon, informed the magiftrates that Amsterdam Rasp- ic had been the caufe of frequent ruptures.* house. No friends of the prifoners are permitted to vifit them, without exprefs orders from the regents, unlefs on Mondays: and then they muft be fearched, to prevent the introduction of Jpirituous liquors^ or inftruments for breaking out, or any thing elfe forbidden : and they muft retire before the time for fhutting up. Every vifitant is obliged to put two ftivers into a box entrufted with the father. Refrelhments may be received and given to the convifts on Tuefdays; but not on other days. Every evening, at eight o'clock, the father muft fee that all things are in due order. The faws, and other heavy imple- ments for their work, are taken from them in the evening, and re- turned in the morning. If a convid be guilty of breaking any thing confiderable, or of negledt or difobedience, he is puniftied feverely by whipping, or confined to bread and water in a dungeon under ground. Prayers are read morning and evening, and before and after meals, by one of the beft-behaved convidts : and divine fervice, with ^ a fermon, is performed by a clergyman on Sunday mornings. Once a year, a little before the change of the regency, the high- officer and magiftrates, with a fecretary, attended by the inferior officers of juftice, come to this prifon, in order to contraSi or lengthen * I HAD this information from Mr. John Hope, one of their very worthy magiftrates ; and to him I am much obliged for copies of the rules and inftrudlions to thi^ houfe, the/Jiiti-houfe, and the 'work-hou/g, th^