Our Convicts: Their Riots and Their Causes, Containing Startling Revelations of the Frightful Abuses of Our Convict System, Official Correspondence, Etc;, Etc (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

W. Thwaites

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267803311 ISBN 13: 9780267803316

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Our Convicts: Their Riots and Their Causes, Containing Startling Revelations of the Frightful Abuses of Our Convict System, Official Correspondence, Etc;, Etc

My Lords and Gentlemen, if the outbreak at Chatham was an exceptional circumstance, it might, be impossible to arrive at the cause, although it is not at all probable that 800 men out of would be in Open and furious mutiny without some tangible reason being alleged. Rebellion is the chronic condition of all the convict prisons. I spent ten years under Sir Joshua J ebb, as first school master among convicts; I served in eight different convict prisons and hulks, and in every one of them, from time to time, occurred furious and general revolts. On one occasion the assistant-surgeon, Charles Hope, Esq, was murdered. I left the convict service in 1857, and since that time the rebellions among the convicts have been more frequent, and of a far more fearful and general character. In Dartmoor, at Portsmouth, at Portland, at Lewes, and at Chatham, during the last three years there have been far more mutinies among the convicts than ever were known before.

It has been kept from the knowledge of the Lords and Commons, but those acquainted with convicts well know that mutiny and riot are far more general in Sir J. J ebb's convict prisons than they ever were even in the horrible hulks.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267803311
• ISBN 13: 9780267803316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 86