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Excerpt from Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison Discipline Eminent individuals turned their attention to the subject of the penal law; and imprisonment, not only in England, but upon the continent. The result of their inquiries was a decided conviction, that crimes arise more from the want of instruction, classification, employment, and inspection, in jail, than from any other cause. The old system of prison discipline was pronounced essentially defective-ruinous as it regarded young culprits. The more immediately after the commission of a crime, a punishment is inflicted, the more just and useful it will be. It will be more just, because it spares the criminal, the cruel and superfluous torment of uncertainty, which increases in proportion to the strength of his imagination, and the sense of his weakness; and because the privation of liberty, being a punishment, ought to be inflicted before condemnation, but for as short a time as possi ble. - Beccaria, page 64. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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