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" States do not transport convicts; but men are put to labor in the rasp-houses, and women to proper work in the spin-houses — upon this professed maxim, 'MAKE THEM DILIGENT AND THEY WILL BE HONEST.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious... "
Observations on Penal Jurisprudence and the Reformation of Criminals: With ... - Page 120
by William Roscoe - 1819 - 323 pages
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Observations on Penal Jurisprudence: And the Reformation of Criminals

William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...men were put to labour, in the latter women, upon this professed maxim, make them diligent, and they will be honest;* but the Dutch, finding woollen manufactures...Penitentiaries, by preventing the necessity, is the substantial cause of the very rare occurrence of capital punishments ? Every reader may determine for...
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John Howard, and the Prison-world of Europe: From Original and Authentic ...

William Hepworth Dixon - Prison reformers - 1852 - 444 pages
...this professed maxim, 1 MAKE THEM DILIGENT AND THEY WILL BE HONEST.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good; and I am well informed that many come out sober and honest. Some have even chosen to continue and work...
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John Howard, and the Prison-world of Europe: From Original and Authentic ...

William Hepworth Dixon - Prison reformers - 1852 - 440 pages
...this professed maxim, ' MAKE THEM DILIGENT AND THEY WILL BE HONEST.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the pubh'c good ; and I am well informed that many come out sober and honest. Some have even chosen to...
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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1874 - 748 pages
...diligent, and they will be honest." A little further on he says that " Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners for their own and the public good." In Holland, even in those days, the children of malefactors who were executed, and of those who were...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 80

Religion - 1915 - 540 pages
...and neglectful of their duty in this respect, he had found in Holland ' great care is taken to give prisoners moral and religious instruction, and reform...their manners, for their own and the public good. The chaplain (such there is in every house of correction) does not only perform public worship, but...
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Howard, the Philanthropist: And His Friends

John Stoughton - Celebrities - 1884 - 416 pages
...professed maxim : ' Make them diligent, and they will be honest.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good ; and I am well informed, that many come out sober and honest. Some have even chosen to continue and work...
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Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, Volume 18

Criminal law - 1898 - 910 pages
...this professed maxim: Make them diligent and they will be honest .... Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good. Unb &. 6(5: I leave this country with regret, as it affords a large field for information on the important...
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John Howard

Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - Prison reformers - 1902 - 262 pages
...for their better living in prison, or for their benefit afterwards. Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good. The chaplain (such there is in every house of correction) does not only perform public worship, but...
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The Cause and Cure of Crime

Charles Richmond Henderson - Crime - 1914 - 200 pages
...this professed maxim, ' Make them diligent and they will be honest.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction and reform their manners for their own and the public good. The chaplain does not only perform public worship, but privately instructs the prisoners, catechises...
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