ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes giving a short review of the Report of Lord Grey’s Commission on transportation and penal servitude, with its counter memorandum by the Chief Justice, and of that of Lord Carnarvon’s Committee on prison discipline. In his 1863 paper to the Social Science Association, Adderley reviewed the two recent official reports: the “Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Operation of the Acts relating to Transportation and Penal Servitude”; and the “Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Gaol Discipline”. The labour in prisons has not been properly penal, nor of so definite and known a meaning as it should be. In former prisons, which were sinks of filth, disease, and every sort of corruption, the younger criminals became adepts, and the older more hardened.
