 | Charles Dickens - United States - 1842 - 342 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. ID its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
 | Charles Dickens - United States - 1842 - 452 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. 1 believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation; butl am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen... | |
 | Joseph Adshead - Jails - 1845 - 348 pages
...hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in " its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, I am well " convinced that it is kind, humane, and...discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execu" tion, do not know what they are doing." We uphold, with as much tenacity as Mr. Dickens can... | |
 | John Field - Jails - 1848 - 192 pages
...hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intentions, 1 am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant...gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what they are doing.' * * * Mr. Dickens certainly gives credit to ' those benevolent gentlemen ' who have... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 206 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this sytem of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know... | |
 | William Parker Foulke - Prison discipline - 1861 - 118 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. " In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers ; and in guessing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. 1 believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind,...is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong. faded fruit, the refuse of the butchers' stalls, and offal and garbage of a hundred kinds. are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged... | |
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In its intention I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what it is that... 
