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- While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, in the early 1820s, has gone unnoticed by scholars.
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/rethinking-the-origins-of-the-british-prisons-act-of-1835-ireland-and-the-development-of-centralgovernment-prison-inspection-18201835/56368AFFD5ABF2C882CED331DD14E45CRETHINKING THE ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH PRISONS ACT OF 1835 ...
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I argue that the prototype for central-government prison inspection was neither the factory nor the poor-law inspectorates but rather the system developed in Ireland for managing prisons in the early 1820s, pioneered by two Tory chief secretaries: Charles Grant and Henry Goulburn.
While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, alongside the new factory and poor-law inspectorates, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, in the
Rethinking the origins of the British Prisons Act of 1835: Ireland and the development and planning of prisons throughout the ‘four nations’ of the United Kingdom, 1820-35
Rethinking the origins of the British Prisons Act of 1835: Ireland and the development of central-government prison inspection, 1820-35 (Pre published)
Abstract While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, in the early 1820s, has gone unnoticed by scholars.
Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1810 The 1810 Prisons (Ireland) Act formed the basis for the inspectors’ work. It stated that prison governors had to be men who were neither bakers nor brewers, who had no other business to distract them from their prison work and who resided in the prison. The sale of alcohol was banned outright. In great detail,
