| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0131.wav,"To specify more particularly one or two of the worst, it may be mentioned that in the Borough Compter",LJ004-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0132.wav,the old evils of indiscriminate association still continued unchecked.,LJ004-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0133.wav,"All prisoners passed their time in absolute idleness, or killed it by gambling and loose conversation.",LJ004-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0134.wav,"The debtors were crowded almost inconceivably. In a space twenty feet long by six wide,",LJ004-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0135.wav,"twenty men slept on eight straw beds, with sixteen rugs amongst them, and a piece of timber for a bolster.",LJ004-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0136.wav,"Mr. Buxton, who found this, declared that it seemed physically impossible, but he was assured that it was true,",LJ004-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0137.wav,"and that it was accomplished by ""sleeping edgewise.""",LJ004-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0138.wav,"One poor wretch, who had slept next the wall, said he had been literally unable to move for the pressure.",LJ004-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0139.wav,In the morning the stench and heat were so oppressive that he and every one else on waking rushed unclothed into the yard;,LJ004-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0140.wav,"and the turnkey told Mr. Buxton that the ""smell on first opening the door was enough to knock down a horse.",LJ004-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0141.wav,"The hospital was filled with infectious cases, and in one room, seven feet by nine, with closed windows,",LJ004-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0142.wav,"where a lad lay ill with fever, three other prisoners, at first perfectly healthy, were lodged. Of course they were seized with the fever;",LJ004-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0143.wav,"so that the culprit, in addition to his sentence,",LJ004-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0144.wav,"had to endure by ""the regulations of the city a disease very dangerous in its nature,"" and ran the risk of a lingering and painful death.",LJ004-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0145.wav,"At Guildford prison, which Mr. Buxton also visited in 1818,",LJ004-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0146.wav,"there was no infirmary, no chapel, no work, no classification.",LJ004-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0147.wav,"The irons, which nearly every one wore, were remarkably heavy; those double ironed could not take off their small clothes.",LJ004-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0148.wav,"No prison dress was allowed, and half the inmates were without shirts or shoes or stockings.",LJ004-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0149.wav,"The diet was limited to dry bread, which was of the best certainly, and a pound and a half in weight.",LJ004-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0150.wav,Matters were on much the same footing at St. Albans.,LJ004-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0151.wav,"They were far worse at Bristol,",LJ004-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0152.wav,"although at Mr. Buxton's visit a new jail was in process of erection, the first step towards reform since Howard's visitation in 1774.",LJ004-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0153.wav,In 1818 the old jail was so densely packed that it was nearly impossible to pass through the yards for the throng.,LJ004-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0154.wav,One hundred and fifty were lodged in a prison just capable of holding fifty-two.,LJ004-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0155.wav,"In the crowd, all of them persons who had ""no other avocation or mode of livelihood but thieving,"" Mr. Buxton counted eleven children",LJ004-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0156.wav,children hardly old enough to be released from the nursery.,LJ004-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0157.wav,"All charged with felony were in heavy irons, without distinction of age.",LJ004-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0158.wav,All were in ill health; almost all were in rags; almost all were filthy in the extreme.,LJ004-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0159.wav,"The state of the prison, the desperation of the prisoners, broadly hinted in their conversation and plainly expressed in their conduct,",LJ004-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0160.wav,"the uproar of oaths, complaints, and obscenity,",LJ004-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0161.wav,"the indescribable stench, presented together a concentration of the utmost misery and the utmost guilt.",LJ004-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0162.wav,"It was ""a scene of infernal passions and distresses,"" says Buxton, ""which few have imagination sufficient to picture,",LJ004-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0163.wav,"and of which fewer still would believe that the original is to be found in this enlightened and happy country.""",LJ004-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0164.wav,"There was still worse to come. Having explored the yards and adjacent day rooms, and sleeping cells, a door was unlocked,",LJ004-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0165.wav,"the visitors were furnished with candles, and they descended eighteen long steps into a vault.",LJ004-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0166.wav,"At the bottom was a circular space, through which ran a narrow passage, and the sides of which were fitted with barrack bedsteads.",LJ004-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0167.wav,"The floor was on the level of the river, and very damp.",LJ004-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0168.wav,"The smell at one o'clock of the day ""was something more than can be expressed by the term disgusting.""",LJ004-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0169.wav,On the dirty bedstead lay a wretched being in the throes of severe illness.,LJ004-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0170.wav,"The only ventilation of this pit, this ""dark, cheerless, damp, unwholesome cavern -- a dungeon in its worst sense""",LJ004-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0171.wav,"was by a kind of chimney, which the prisoners kept hermetically sealed, and which had never been opened in the memory of the turnkey.",LJ004-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0172.wav,"Untried persons were often lodged in this nauseous underground den,",LJ004-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0173.wav,"and sometimes slept in ""the pit,"" loaded with heavy irons for a whole year, waiting the jail delivery.",LJ004-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0174.wav,Confinement for twelve months in the Bristol jail was counted a punishment equivalent to seven years' transportation.,LJ004-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0175.wav,In this prison there was no female infirmary.,LJ004-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0176.wav,"Sick women and their children remained in the ordinary wards, and propagated disease.",LJ004-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0177.wav,"No prison dress was allowed; no reception-room was provided, no soap, towels, or baths.",LJ004-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0178.wav,"The bedclothes consisted only of a single ""very slight"" rug.",LJ004-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0179.wav,"The allowance of food daily to felons was a fourpenny loaf,",LJ004-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0180.wav,a price which in those days fluctuated enormously -- as much as a hundred percent in a couple of years;,LJ004-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0181.wav,"but as no similar variation occurred in the prisoner's appetite, his ration was somewhat precarious.",LJ004-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0182.wav,"As for the debtors, they had no allowance whatever, and were often in imminent danger of starvation.",LJ004-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0183.wav,"With all this, the inmates were crowded together at night to such a degree as to excite surprise that they should escape suffocation.",LJ004-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0184.wav,"There reigned through the whole edifice a chilly, damp, unwholesome atmosphere, and the effluvia from the prisoners was so nauseous",LJ004-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0185.wav,"that the chaplain found it necessary to take his place before they entered chapel, as he could not otherwise have faced the smell.",LJ004-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0186.wav,"It is consoling to know that there were a few brilliant exceptions to this cruel, callous neglect.",LJ004-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0187.wav,"Already, as early as 1818, a prison existed at Bury St. Edmunds which was a model for imitation to others at that time,",LJ004-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0188.wav,and which even fulfilled many of the exacting requirements of modern days.,LJ004-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0189.wav,"The great principles of classification, cleanliness, and employment were closely observed.",LJ004-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0190.wav,"There were eighty-four separate sleeping-cells, and unless the jail was overcrowded, every inmate passed the night alone,",LJ004-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0191.wav,"and in comparative comfort, with a bed and proper bedding.",LJ004-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0192.wav,"The prison stood on a dry, airy situation outside the town.",LJ004-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0193.wav,"Prisoners on reception were treated as they are now-a-days -- bathed, dressed in prison clothes, and inspected by the surgeon.",LJ004-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0194.wav,No irons were worn except as a punishment.,LJ004-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0195.wav,"Personal cleanliness was insisted upon, and all parts of the prison were kept scrupulously clean.",LJ004-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0196.wav,"There was an infirmary, properly found and duly looked after.",LJ004-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0197.wav,"No idleness was permitted among the inmates. Trades were taught, or prisoners were allowed to follow their own if suitable.",LJ004-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0198.wav,"There was, besides, a mill for grinding corn, somewhat similar to a turn-spit, which prisoners turned by walking in rows.",LJ004-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0199.wav,"This made exertion compulsory, and imposed hard labor as a proper punishment.",LJ004-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0200.wav,"Another jail, that of Ilchester, was also worthy of all commendation. It exhibited all the good points of that at Bury.",LJ004-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0201.wav,At Ilchester the rule of employment had been carried further.,LJ004-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0202.wav,A system not adopted generally till nearly half a century later had already prevailed at Ilchester.,LJ004-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0203.wav,The new jail had been in a great measure constructed by the prisoners themselves.,LJ004-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0204.wav,"Masons, bricklayers, carpenters, painters had been employed upon the buildings, and the work was pronounced excellent by competent judges.",LJ004-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0205.wav,Industrial labor had also been introduced with satisfactory results.,LJ004-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0206.wav,"Blanket weaving and cloth spinning was carried on prosperously,",LJ004-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0207.wav,and all the material for prisoners' apparel was manufactured in the jail.,LJ004-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0208.wav,"There were work-rooms for wool-washing, dyeing, carding, and spinning.",LJ004-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0209.wav,"The looms were constantly busy. Tailors were always at work, and every article of clothing and bedding was made up within the walls.",LJ004-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0210.wav,"There was a prison laundry too, where all the prisoners' linen was regularly washed.",LJ004-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0211.wav,The moral welfare of the inmates was as closely looked after as the physical.,LJ004-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0212.wav,"There was an attentive chaplain, a schoolmaster, and regular religious and other instruction.",LJ004-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0213.wav,Compared with those highly meritorious institutions Newgate still showed but badly.,LJ004-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0214.wav,"Its evils were inherent and irremediable, but some ameliorating measures had been introduced,",LJ004-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0215.wav,"mainly through the exertions of a new governor, Mr. Brown, who succeeded Mr. Newman at Newgate in 1817.",LJ004-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0216.wav,The most noticeable of the improvements introduced was a better regulation of dietaries within the prison.,LJ004-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0217.wav,"The old haphazard system, by which meat was issued in bulk,",LJ004-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0218.wav,"a week's allowance at a time, was abolished, and there was a regular scale of daily rations adopted.",LJ004-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0219.wav,The diet was now ample. It consisted of a pound and a half of bread per diem;,LJ004-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0220.wav,"for breakfast a pint of gruel; for dinner half a pound of boiled meat, or a quart of soup with vegetables, on alternate days.",LJ004-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0221.wav,The food was properly prepared in the prison kitchen.,LJ004-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0222.wav,"Meat was no longer issued raw, to be imperfectly cooked before a ward fire and bolted gluttonously, the whole two pounds at one sitting.",LJ004-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0223.wav,Mr. Brown confidently asserted that no jail in England now fed its inmates so well as did Newgate.,LJ004-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0224.wav,"So plentiful was this dietary, that although the old permission remained in force of allowing the friends of prisoners to bring them supplies from outside,",LJ004-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0225.wav,"the practice was falling into abeyance, and the prisoners seldom required private assistance to eke out their meals.",LJ004-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0226.wav,"It was also claimed for the more ample and more orderly distribution of victuals, that the general health of the prisoners had greatly improved.",LJ004-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0227.wav,"Mr. Brown also, much to his own credit, brought about the abandonment of the practice of ironing all prisoners as a matter of course.",LJ004-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0228.wav,"In 1818 prisoners awaiting trial in Newgate, were at length relieved from this illegal infliction.",LJ004-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0229.wav,"Convicts were not even compelled to wear irons, providing they behaved well.",LJ004-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0230.wav,"It was found that shackles might be safely dispensed with, even in the case of the most desperate characters.",LJ004-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0231.wav,"This was effected by stopping the nearly indiscriminate admission of visitors, which had hitherto prevailed all over the jail.",LJ004-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0232.wav,"Ironing it will be remembered, was a distinguishing badge, so that when the jail was cleared the free might be readily known from the captive, and escapes prevented.",LJ004-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0233.wav,"Under the new rule visitors were not allowed to pass into the interior of the prison, but were detained between the grating.",LJ004-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0234.wav,"This change led to some discontent, until it was found that the much greater boon of relief from irons accompanied it, and the reform was quietly accepted.",LJ004-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0235.wav,"Indeed the best consequences followed from the removal of irons. The prisoners were much better disposed; there were no riots, and fewer disturbances.",LJ004-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0236.wav,"But nothing short of radical reform and complete reconstruction could touch the deep-seated evils of association, overcrowding, and idleness.",LJ004-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0237.wav,The first still produced deplorable results -- results to be observable for many years to come.,LJ004-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0238.wav,Mr. Buxton mentions the case of a boy whose apparent innocence and artlessness had attracted his attention.,LJ004-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0239.wav,He had been committed for an offense for which he was acquitted.,LJ004-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0240.wav,"He left Newgate utterly corrupted, and after lapsing into crime, soon returned with a very different character.",LJ004-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0241.wav,Other cases of moral deterioration have already been recorded.,LJ004-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0242.wav,"Some attempt was made to reduce the overcrowding, on the recommendation of the House of Commons Committee of 1818, but this applied only a partial remedy.",LJ004-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0243.wav,The bulk of the prisoners were still left in idleness.,LJ004-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0244.wav,"A few fortunate criminals, many of them kept back from transportation on purpose, who were skilled in trades, were employed at them.",LJ004-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0245.wav,"Painters, plasterers, and carpenters were allowed to follow their handicrafts, with the reward of sixpence per diem and a double allowance of food.",LJ004-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0246.wav,"They used their own tools, and this without any dangerous consequences as regards facilitating the escape of others,",LJ004-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0247.wav,thus disposing of the objection so long raised against the industrial employment of prisoners in Newgate.,LJ004-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0248.wav,But this boon of toil was denied to all but a very limited number.,LJ004-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0249.wav,"As the Prison Discipline Society pertinently observed in a report dated 1820,",LJ004-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ004-0250.wav,"It is obvious that reformation must be materially impeded, and in some cases utterly defeated, when the prisoners are defectively classed,|It is obvious that reformation must be materially impeded, and in some cases utterly defeated, when the prisoners are defectively classed,",LJ004-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 8: The beginnings of prison reform.",LJ005-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0002.wav,Newgate prisoners were the victims to another most objectionable practice which obtained all over London.,LJ005-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0003.wav,"Persons committed to a metropolitan jail at that time were taken in gangs, men and women handcuffed together, or linked on to a long chain,",LJ005-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0004.wav,unless they could afford to pay for a vehicle out of their own funds.,LJ005-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0005.wav,"Even then they were not certain of the favor, for I find a reference to a decent and respectable woman sent to Newgate",LJ005-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0006.wav,"who handed a shilling to the escort warder to provide her with a hackney coach; but this functionary pocketed the cash, and obliged the woman to walk",LJ005-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0007.wav,"chained to the rest. As the miserable crew filed through the public streets, exposed to the scornful gaze of every passenger,",LJ005-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0008.wav,"they were followed by a crowd of reckless boys, who jeered at and insulted them.",LJ005-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0009.wav,"Many thus led in procession were in a shocking condition of dirt and misery, frequently nearly naked, and often bearing upon them",LJ005-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0010.wav,"the germs, more or less developed, of contagious disease. ""Caravans,"" the forerunners of the prison vans,",LJ005-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0011.wav,"were first made use of about 1827. That the need for prison reform was imperative may be gathered from the few out of many instances I have adduced,",LJ005-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0012.wav,"yet there were those who, wedded to ancient ideas, were intolerant of change; they would not admit the existence of any evils.",LJ005-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0013.wav,"One smug alderman, a member of the House of Commons, sneered at the ultra philanthropy of the champions of prison improvement.",LJ005-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0014.wav,"Speaking on a debate on prison matters, he declared that",LJ005-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0015.wav,"our prisoners have all that prisoners ought to have, without gentlemen think they ought to be indulged with Turkey carpets.",LJ005-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0016.wav,The Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline was taxed with a desire to introduce a system,LJ005-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0017.wav,tending to divest punishment of its just and salutary terrors;,LJ005-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0018.wav,"an imputation which the Society indignantly and very justly repudiated, the statement being, as they said,",LJ005-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0019.wav,"refuted by abundant evidence, and having no foundation whatever in truth.",LJ005-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0020.wav,"Among those whom the Society found arrayed against it was Sydney Smith,",LJ005-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0021.wav,"who, in a caustic article contributed to the 'Edinburgh Review,' protested against the pampering of criminals",LJ005-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0022.wav,"While fully admitting the good intentions of the Society, he condemned their ultra humanitarianism as misplaced.",LJ005-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0023.wav,He took exception to various of the proposals of the Society. He thought they leant too much to a system of indulgence and education in jails.,LJ005-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0024.wav,He objected to the instruction of prisoners in reading and writing.,LJ005-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0025.wav,"A poor man who is lucky enough, he said, ""to have his son committed for a felony",LJ005-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0026.wav,"educates him under such a system for nothing, while the virtuous simpleton who is on the other side of the wall is paying by the quarter for these attainments.""",LJ005-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0027.wav,"He was altogether against too liberal a diet; he disapproved of industrial occupations in jails, as not calculated to render prisons terrible.",LJ005-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0028.wav,"There should be no tea and sugar, no assemblage of female felons around the washing-tub,|There should be no tea and sugar, no assemblage of female felons around the washing-tub,",LJ005-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0029.wav,"nothing but beating hemp and pulling oakum and pounding bricks -- no work but what was tedious, unusual.""",LJ005-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0030.wav,"In prisons, which are really meant to keep the multitude in order, and to be a terror to evil-doers, there must be no sharings of profits,|In prisons, which are really meant to keep the multitude in order, and to be a terror to evil-doers, there must be no sharings of profits,",LJ005-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0031.wav,"no visiting of friends, no education but religious education, no freedom of diet,",LJ005-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0032.wav,"no weavers' looms or carpenters' benches. There must be a great deal of solitude, coarse food, a dress of shame,",LJ005-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0033.wav,"hard, incessant, irksome, eternal labor, a planned and regulated and unrelenting exclusion of happiness and comfort.",LJ005-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0034.wav,"Undeterred by these sarcasms and misrepresentations,",LJ005-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0035.wav,the Society pursued its laudable undertaking with remarkable energy and great singleness of purpose.,LJ005-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0036.wav,The objects it had in view were set forth in one of its earliest meetings.,LJ005-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0037.wav,It sought to obtain and diffuse useful information,LJ005-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0038.wav,"to suggest beneficial regulations, and circulate tracts demonstrating the advantages of classification,",LJ005-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0039.wav,"constant inspection, regular employment, and humane treatment generally, with religious and moral instruction.",LJ005-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0040.wav,"It earnestly advocated the appointment of female officers to take exclusive charge of female prisoners,",LJ005-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0041.wav,"a much-needed and, according to our ideas, indispensable reform, already initiated by the Ladies' Committee at Newgate.",LJ005-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0042.wav,"It made the subject of the newly-invented tread-wheels, or stepping-wheels, as they were at first called, its peculiar affair,",LJ005-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0043.wav,"and obtained full details, from places where they had been adopted, of the nature of these new machines",LJ005-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0044.wav,"the method by which they were worked, and the dietaries of the prisoners employed upon them.",LJ005-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0045.wav,Nor did it confine itself to mere verbal recommendations.,LJ005-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0046.wav,"The good it tried to do took active shape in the establishment of temporary refuges -- at Hoxton for males, and in the Hackney Road for females",LJ005-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0047.wav,for the reception of deserving cases discharged from prison. The governor of Newgate and other metropolitan prisons had orders of admission to this refuge,LJ005-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0048.wav,"which he could bestow on prisoners on release, and so save the better-disposed or the completely destitute from lapsing at once into crime.",LJ005-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0049.wav,"The refuge, which had for its object the training of its inmates in habits of industry,",LJ005-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0050.wav,"and in moral and religious duty, and which after a time sought to provide them with suitable situations, was supported entirely out of the funds of the Society.",LJ005-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0051.wav,"At the time of its greatest prosperity, its annual income from donations and subscriptions was about one thousand six hundred pounds.",LJ005-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0052.wav,Another point to which the Society devoted infinite pains was the preparation of plans for the guidance of architects in the construction of prisons.,LJ005-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0053.wav,A very valuable volume published by the Society,LJ005-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0054.wav,traced the progress of prison architecture from the days when the jail was the mere annexe of the baronial or episcopal castle,LJ005-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0055.wav,"or a dungeon above or below the gate of a town, to the first attempts at systematic reconstruction carried out under the advice and supervision of Howard.",LJ005-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0056.wav,"It is interesting to observe that the plan of ""radiation,"" by which the prison blocks radiated from a central hall, like spokes in a wheel",LJ005-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0057.wav,was introduced as early as 1790 by Mr. Blackburn,LJ005-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0058.wav,an architect of eminence who was very largely employed in the erection of prison buildings at the close of the last century.,LJ005-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0059.wav,With some important modifications this principle of radiation is still the rule.,LJ005-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0060.wav,The Society did not limit its remarks to the description of what had already been done,LJ005-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0061.wav,"but it offered suggestions for future buildings, with numerous carefully-executed drawings and designs of the model it recommended for imitation.",LJ005-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0062.wav,"Experience has since shown that in some respects these plans are defective, especially in the placing of the governor's residence in the center of the prison.",LJ005-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0063.wav,"It was thought that this would guarantee constant supervision and inspection, but it did nothing of the kind, and only the presence of warders on duty",LJ005-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0064.wav,"is found now-a-days to be really efficacious. The main recommendations, however, are based upon common sense",LJ005-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0065.wav,and none are more commendable than that which deprecates the excessive ornamentation of the external parts of the edifice.,LJ005-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0066.wav,"The new jails, as Howard says, ""having pompous fronts, appear like palaces to the lower class of people, and many persons are against them on this account.""",LJ005-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0067.wav,"The Prison Society reproves the misdirected efforts of ambitious architects, who by a lavish and improvident expenditure of public money",LJ005-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0068.wav,"sought to ""rank the prisons they built among the most splendid buildings of the city or town.""",LJ005-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0069.wav,Absence of embellishment is in perfect unison with the character of the establishment.,LJ005-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0070.wav,"These are principles fully recognized now-a-days, and it may fairly be conceded that the Prison Discipline Society's ideal",LJ005-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0071.wav,differed little from that kept in view in the construction of the latest and best modern jails.,LJ005-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0072.wav,After a few years of active exertion the Society was rewarded by fresh legislation.,LJ005-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0073.wav,"To its efforts, and their effect upon Parliament and the public mind, we must attribute the new Jail Acts of 4 George IV",LJ005-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0074.wav,"cap. 64, and 5 George IV. cap. 85",LJ005-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0075.wav,"which having gone through several sessions, at last became law in 1823 to 4",LJ005-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0076.wav,By the preamble of the first-named act it was declared,LJ005-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0077.wav,"expedient to introduce such measures and arrangements as shall not only provide for the safe custody,|expedient to introduce such measures and arrangements as shall not only provide for the safe custody,",LJ005-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0078.wav,but shall also tend more effectually to preserve the health,LJ005-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0079.wav,"and improve the morals of the prisoners, and shall insure the proper measure of punishment to convicted offenders.",LJ005-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0080.wav,"Accordingly due provision was made for the enforcement of hard labor on all prisoners sentenced to it, and for the employment of all others.",LJ005-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0082.wav,"unless such ability (to work) should cease by reason of sickness, infirmity, the want of sufficient work, or from any other cause.",LJ005-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0083.wav,"It was distinctly laid down that male and female prisoners should be confined in separate buildings or parts of the prison,",LJ005-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0084.wav,"so as to prevent them from seeing, conversing, or holding any intercourse with each other.",LJ005-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0085.wav,"Classification was insisted upon, in the manner laid down by the 24 George III. cap. 54,",LJ005-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0086.wav,with such further separation as the justices should deem conducive to good order and discipline.,LJ005-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0087.wav,Female prisoners were in all cases to be under the charge of female officers.,LJ005-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0088.wav,Every prison containing female prisoners was to have a matron who was to reside constantly in the prison.,LJ005-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0089.wav,"The religious and moral welfare of the prisoners were to be attended to,",LJ005-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0090.wav,"the first by daily services, the latter by the appointment of schoolmasters and instruction in reading and writing.",LJ005-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0091.wav,"Last, but not least, the use of irons was strictly forbidden, ""except in cases of urgent and absolute necessity,""",LJ005-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0092.wav,"and every prisoner was to be provided with a hammock or cot to himself, suitable bedding, and, if possible, a separate cell.",LJ005-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0093.wav,"The second act, passed in the following year, enlarged and amended the first, and at the same time gave powers to the House",LJ005-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0094.wav,to call for information as to the observance of its provisions.,LJ005-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0095.wav,The promulgation of these two Jail Acts strengthened the hands of the Prison Discipline Society enormously.,LJ005-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0096.wav,"It had now a legal and authoritative standard of efficiency to apply,",LJ005-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0097.wav,"and could expose all the local authorities that still lagged behind, or neglected to comply with the provisions of the new laws.",LJ005-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0098.wav,"The Society did not shrink from its self-imposed duty, but continued year after year, with unflagging energy and unflinching spirit, to watch closely",LJ005-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0099.wav,and report at length upon the condition of the prisons of the country.,LJ005-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0100.wav,"For this purpose it kept up an extensive correspondence with all parts of the kingdom, and circulated queries to be answered in detail,",LJ005-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0101.wav,whence it deduced the practice and condition of every prison that replied.,LJ005-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0102.wav,"Upon these and the private visitations made by various members the Society obtained the facts,",LJ005-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0103.wav,"often highly damnatory, which were embodied in its annual reports.",LJ005-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0104.wav,The progress of improvement was certainly extremely slow.,LJ005-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0105.wav,It was long before the many jurisdictions imitated the few.,LJ005-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0106.wav,"Jails, of which the old prison at Reading was a specimen, were still left intact.",LJ005-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0107.wav,"In that prison, with its cells and yards arranged within the shell of an ancient abbey chapel,",LJ005-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0108.wav,"the prisoners, without firing, bedding, or sufficient food, spent their days ""in surveying their grotesque prison,",LJ005-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0109.wav,"or contriving some means of escape by climbing the fluted columns which supported the Gothic arches of the aisles,",LJ005-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0110.wav,and so passing by the roof down into the garden and on to freedom.,LJ005-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0111.wav,"In a county prison adjoining the metropolis, the separation between the male and female quarters was supposed to be accomplished by the erection of an iron railing;",LJ005-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0112.wav,in this same prison capital convicts were chained to the floor until execution.,LJ005-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0113.wav,"In another jail not far off male and female felons still occupied the same room -- underground, and reached by a ladder of ten steps.",LJ005-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0114.wav,In others the separation between the sexes consisted in a hanging curtain,LJ005-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0115.wav,"or an imaginary boundary line, and nothing prevented parties from passing to either side",LJ005-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0116.wav,but an empty regulation which all so disposed could defy.,LJ005-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0117.wav,"Numbers of the jails were still unprovided with chaplains, and the prisoners never heard Divine service.",LJ005-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0118.wav,"In many others there were no infirmaries, no places set apart for the confinement of prisoners afflicted with dangerous and infectious disorders.",LJ005-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0119.wav,No attempt was made to maintain discipline.,LJ005-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0120.wav,"Half the jails had no code of rules properly prepared and sanctioned by the judges, according to law.",LJ005-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0121.wav,"By degrees, however,",LJ005-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0122.wav,"the changes necessary to bring the prisons into conformity with the recent acts were attempted, if not actually introduced into the county prisons, to which,",LJ005-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0123.wav,"with a few of the more important city or borough prisons, these acts more especially applied.",LJ005-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0124.wav,"Most of the local authorities embarked into considerable expenditure, determined to rebuild their jails de novo on the most approved pattern,",LJ005-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0125.wav,"or to reappropriate, reconstruct, and patch up the existing prisons till they were more in accordance with the growing requirements of the times.",LJ005-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0126.wav,"Religious worship became more generally the rule; chaplains were appointed, and chapels provided for them; surgeons and hospitals also.",LJ005-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0127.wav,"Workshops were built at many prisons, various kinds of manufactures and trades were set on foot, including weaving, matting, shoe-making, and tailoring.",LJ005-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0128.wav,"The interior of one prison was illuminated throughout with gas, -- still a novelty, which had been generally adopted in London only four years previously,",LJ005-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0129.wav,a measure which must greatly tend to discourage attempts to escape.,LJ005-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0130.wav,"There were tread-wheels at most of the prisons, and regular employment thereon or at some other kind of hard labor.",LJ005-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0131.wav,"In many places too where the prisoners earned money by their work, they were granted a portion of it for their own use after proper deduction for maintenance.",LJ005-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0132.wav,Only a few glaring evils still demanded a remedy.,LJ005-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0133.wav,"The provision of separate sleeping cells was still quite inadequate. For instance,",LJ005-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0134.wav,in twenty-two county jails there were 1063 sleeping cells in all (in 1823),LJ005-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0135.wav,and the average daily number committed that year amounted to 3985.,LJ005-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0136.wav,The want of sleeping cells long continued a crying need.,LJ005-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0137.wav,Four years later the Prison Society reported,LJ005-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0138.wav,"that in four prisons, which at one time of the year contained 1308 prisoners, there were only sixty-eight sleeping rooms or cells,",LJ005-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0139.wav,making an average of nineteen persons occupying each room.,LJ005-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0140.wav,"At the New Prison, Clerkenwell, which had become the principal reception jail of Middlesex, and so took all the untried,",LJ005-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0141.wav,"the sleeping space per head was only sixteen inches, and often as many as 293 men had to be accommodated on barrack beds",LJ005-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0142.wav,occupying barely 390 feet lineal,LJ005-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0143.wav,"The ""scenes of tumult and obscenity"" in these night rooms are said to have been beyond description; a prisoner in one nocturnal riot lost an eye.",LJ005-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0144.wav,"Yet to Clerkenwell were now committed the juveniles, and all who were inexperienced in crime.",LJ005-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0145.wav,Great want of uniformity in treatment in the various prisons was still noticeable,LJ005-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0146.wav,"and was indeed destined to continue for another half century, in other words, until the introduction of the Prison Act of 1877.",LJ005-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0147.wav,At the time of which I am writing there was great diversity of practice as regards the hours of labor.,LJ005-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0148.wav,"In some prisons the prisoners worked seven hours a day, in others ten and ten and a half.",LJ005-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0149.wav,"The nature of the employment varied greatly in severity, especially the tread-wheel labor.",LJ005-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0150.wav,"In some county jails, as I have already said, female prisoners were placed upon the tread-wheel;",LJ005-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0151.wav,"in others women were very properly exempted from it, and also from all severe labor.",LJ005-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0152.wav,"Earnings were very differently appropriated. Here the prisoners were given the whole amount, there a half or a third.",LJ005-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0153.wav,Sometimes this money might be expended in the purchase of extra articles of food.,LJ005-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0154.wav,The rations varied considerably everywhere.,LJ005-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0155.wav,"It was still limited to bread in some places, the allowance of which varied from one to three pounds;",LJ005-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0156.wav,"in others meat, soup, gruel, beer were given.",LJ005-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0157.wav,"Here and there food was not issued in kind, but a money allowance which the prisoner might expend himself.",LJ005-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0158.wav,"Bedding and clothing was still denied, but only in a few jails;",LJ005-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0159.wav,"in others both were supplied in ample quantities, the cost varying per prisoner from twenty shillings to five pounds.",LJ005-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0160.wav,"It was plain that although the law had defined general principles of prison government,",LJ005-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0161.wav,"too much discretion was still left to the magistracy to fill in the details. The legislature only recommended,",LJ005-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0162.wav,"it did not peremptorily insist. Too often the letter of the law was observed, but not its spirit.",LJ005-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0163.wav,One great impediment to wide amelioration was that a vast number of small jails lay out of reach of the law.,LJ005-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0164.wav,"When the new acts were introduced, numerous prisons under local jurisdiction were exempted from the operation of the law.",LJ005-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0165.wav,"They were so radically bad that reform seemed hopeless, and it was thought wiser not to bring them under provisions which clearly could not be enforced.",LJ005-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0166.wav,"Mr. Peel, who as Home Secretary had charge of the bill,",LJ005-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0167.wav,"which became the 4 George IV. cap. 64, said that he had abstained from legislating for these small jurisdictions ""on mature deliberation.""",LJ005-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0168.wav,"It is not, he said, ""that I am insensible of the lamentable and disgraceful situation in which many of them are,",LJ005-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0169.wav,"but I indulge a hope that many of them will contract with the counties,",LJ005-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0170.wav,"that many of them will build new jails, and that when in a year or two we come to examine their situation,",LJ005-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0171.wav,we shall find but few which have not in one or other of these ways removed the grievance of which such just complaint is made.,LJ005-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0172.wav,When that time arrives,LJ005-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0173.wav,"I shall not hesitate to ask Parliament for powers to compel them to make the necessary alterations, for it is not to be endured that these local jurisdictions should remain",LJ005-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0174.wav,"in the deplorable situation in which many of them now are.""",LJ005-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0175.wav,"At this time there were in England one hundred and seventy boroughs, cities, towns, and liberties",LJ005-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0176.wav,which possessed the right of trying criminals for various offenses.,LJ005-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0177.wav,"Nearly every one of these jurisdictions had its own prison, and there were one hundred and sixty such jails in all.",LJ005-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0178.wav,Many of them consisted of one or two rooms at most.,LJ005-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0179.wav,he total number of prisoners they received during the year varied from two persons to many hundreds.,LJ005-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0180.wav,"It was in these jails, withdrawn from the pressure of authority, that the new rules were invariably ignored.",LJ005-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0181.wav,"The right and privilege of the borough to maintain its own place of confinement was so ""ancient and indisputable,""",LJ005-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0182.wav,that for long no idea of interfering with them was entertained.,LJ005-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0183.wav,All that was urged was that the borough magistracy had no right to govern their jails,LJ005-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0184.wav,"so as to corrupt those committed, ""to the injury of the peace and morals of the public.""",LJ005-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0185.wav,"As time passed, however, these magistrates made no effort at reform.",LJ005-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0186.wav,"They neither built new jails nor contracted with the counties, as had been expected, for the transfer of their prisoners.",LJ005-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0187.wav,"As the Society put it in 1827, ""the friends to the improvement of prison discipline will regret to learn",LJ005-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0188.wav,that the jails attached to corporate jurisdictions continue to be the fruitful sources,LJ005-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0189.wav,"of vice and misery, debasing all who are confined within their walls, and disseminating through their respective communities",LJ005-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0190.wav,the knowledge and practice of every species of criminality.,LJ005-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0191.wav,The Society proceeded to support this indictment by facts. It is much the old story.,LJ005-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0192.wav,"The prisoners were lodged in rooms whence they could converse with passengers in the streets, and freely obtain spirits and other prohibited articles.",LJ005-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0193.wav,All descriptions of offenders congregated together in the felons' wards.,LJ005-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0194.wav,"The keeper and his officers resided at a distance from the jail, and left its inmates to their own devices.",LJ005-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0195.wav,There was no decency whatever in the internal arrangements;,LJ005-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0196.wav,"still no separation of the sexes, no means of ablution or other necessary services.",LJ005-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0197.wav,"One borough prison consisted of nothing more than a couple of cells, about ten yards square, and absolutely nothing more.",LJ005-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0198.wav,"In another borough, with a population of ten thousand, the prison was of the same dimensions.",LJ005-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0199.wav,"One cell was a dungeon, and the other an ""improper and unhealthy abode for any human being,"" with a watercourse running through it.",LJ005-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0200.wav,"Most of these small jails were still in existence and in much the same state eight years later,",LJ005-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0201.wav,as is shown by the report of the Commissioners to inquire into the state of the municipal corporations in 1835.,LJ005-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0202.wav,An examination of this report shows how even the most insignificant township had its jail.,LJ005-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0203.wav,"Thus Dinas Mwddy, in Merionethshire, had, ""besides the pinfold and the stocks or crib, a little prison.""",LJ005-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0204.wav,"Clun, in Shropshire, had a lock-up under the town hall.",LJ005-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0205.wav,"At Eye, in Suffolk, the jail was part of the poor-house; so it was at Richmond, in Yorkshire, where the master of the workhouse was also keeper of the jail.",LJ005-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0206.wav,"At Godmanchester there was no jail, but a cage to secure prisoners till they could be taken before a magistrate.",LJ005-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0207.wav,"Kidderminster had a prison, one damp chill room,",LJ005-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0208.wav,"the only aperture through which air could be admitted being an iron grating level with the street,",LJ005-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0209.wav,"through the bars of which quills or reeds were inserted, and drink conveyed to the prisoners.",LJ005-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0210.wav,"At Walsall, in Staffordshire,",LJ005-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0211.wav,"the jail consisted of six cells, frequently so damp that the moisture trickled down the walls; there was not space for air or exercise,",LJ005-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0212.wav,and the prison allowance was still limited to bread and water.,LJ005-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0213.wav,Newgate through all these years continued a bye-word with the Society.,LJ005-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0214.wav,"Some reforms had certainly been introduced, such as the abolition of irons, already referred to, and the establishment of male and female infirmaries.",LJ005-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0215.wav,The regular daily visitation of the chaplain was also insisted upon.,LJ005-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0216.wav,But it was pointed out in 1823 that defective construction must always bar the way to any radical improvement in Newgate.,LJ005-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0217.wav,Without enlargement no material change in discipline or interior economy could possibly be introduced.,LJ005-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0218.wav,The chapel still continued incommodious and insufficient,LJ005-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0219.wav,"female prisoners were still exposed to the full view of the males, the netting in front of the gallery being perfectly useless as a screen.",LJ005-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0220.wav,"In 1824 Newgate had no glass in its windows, except in the infirmary and one ward of the chapel yard;",LJ005-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0221.wav,"and the panes were filled in with oiled paper, an insufficient protection against the weather;",LJ005-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0222.wav,"and as the window-frames would not shut tight, the prisoners complained much of the cold, especially at night.",LJ005-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0223.wav,"There was a diminution in the numbers in custody, due to the adoption of the practice of not committing at once to Newgate every offender for trial at the Old Bailey",LJ005-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0224.wav,but nothing had been done to improve the prison buildings.,LJ005-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0225.wav,"In 1827 the Society was compelled to report that ""no material change had taken place in Newgate since the passing of the prison laws,",LJ005-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0226.wav,and that consequently the observance of their most important provisions was habitually neglected.,LJ005-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0227.wav,"It was enacted that the court of aldermen should make rules for the government of the prison, and that these should be posted publicly within the walls.",LJ005-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0228.wav,As yet no rules or regulations had been printed or prepared.,LJ005-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0229.wav,"By another clause of the Jail Act, two justices were to be appointed to visit the prison at least thrice in every quarter, and ""oftener if occasion required.""",LJ005-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0230.wav,"These justices were to inspect every part of the prison, and examine into the state and condition of prisoners.",LJ005-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0231.wav,The city justices had not fulfilled this obligation.,LJ005-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0232.wav,"Idleness was still the general rule for all prisoners in Newgate, in defiance of the law.",LJ005-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0233.wav,"There was no instruction of adult prisoners, in accordance with the law. The sleeping accommodation was still altogether contrary to the latest ideas.",LJ005-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0234.wav,"The visits of friends was once more unreservedly allowed, and these incomers freely brought in extra provisions and beer.",LJ005-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0235.wav,"Last, and worst of all, the arrangements for keeping the condemned prisoners between sentence and execution were more than unsatisfactory.",LJ005-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0236.wav,"They were not confined apart from each other, but were crowded thirty or forty together in the press yard,",LJ005-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0237.wav,"so that ""corrupt conversation obliterated from the mind of him who is doomed to suffer every serious feeling and valuable impression.""",LJ005-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0238.wav,"I shall have more to say on this subject, and upon the state of Newgate generally, in the following chapter.",LJ005-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0239.wav,"The Prison Society did not relax its efforts as time passed, but its leading members had other and more pressing claims upon their energies.",LJ005-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0240.wav,"Mr. Buxton had succeeded to the great work which William Wilberforce had commenced, and led the repeated attacks upon slavery in British colonies",LJ005-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0241.wav,till the whole body of the slaves were manumitted in 1833.,LJ005-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0242.wav,"In the year immediately preceding this, Parliament was too busy with the great question of its own reform to spare much time for domestic legislation.",LJ005-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0243.wav,"Nevertheless a committee of the House of Commons was appointed in 1831 to report upon the whole system of secondary punishments,",LJ005-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0244.wav,"which dealt with jails of all classes, as well as transportation.",LJ005-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0245.wav,"This committee animadverted strongly upon the system in force at the metropolitan jails, and more especially upon the condition of Newgate",LJ005-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0246.wav,"where ""prisoners before and after trial are under no efficient superintendence,"" and where ""there was no restraint, or attempt at restraint.""",LJ005-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0247.wav,Mr. Samuel Hoare was examined by this committee,LJ005-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0248.wav,"and stated that in his opinion Newgate, as the common jail of Middlesex, was wholly inadequate to the proper confinement of its prisoners.",LJ005-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0249.wav,From the moment of a person's committal he was certain to be plunged deeper and deeper in guilt.,LJ005-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0250.wav,"The prisoners were crowded together in the jail, contrary to the requirements of the 4 George IV.",LJ005-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0251.wav,"Again in 1835 prisons and their inmates became once more the care of the senate, and the subject was taken up this time by the House of Lords.",LJ005-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0252.wav,"A committee was appointed, under the presidency of the Duke of Richmond",LJ005-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0253.wav,"to inquire into and report upon the several jails and houses of correction in the counties, cities, and corporate towns within England and Wales|to inquire into and report upon the several jails and houses of correction in the counties, cities, and corporate towns within England and Wales",LJ005-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0254.wav,"upon the rules and discipline therein established with regard to the treatment of unconvicted as well as convicted persons.""",LJ005-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0255.wav,"The committee was also to report upon the manner in which sentences were carried out, and to recommend any alterations necessary in the rules",LJ005-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0256.wav,"in order to insure uniformity of discipline. It met on the 31st March, 1835, and continued its sittings well into July",LJ005-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0257.wav,"during which time a host of witnesses were examined, and the committee presented three separate reports,",LJ005-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0258.wav,embodying recommendations which may be said to have formed the basis of modern prison management.,LJ005-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0259.wav,"It was laid down as a first and indispensable principle that uniformity of discipline should prevail everywhere,",LJ005-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0260.wav,a theory which did not become a practical fact for forty more years.,LJ005-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0261.wav,"As a means of securing this uniformity,",LJ005-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0262.wav,"it was suggested that the rules framed for prison government should be subjected to the Secretary of State for approval,",LJ005-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0263.wav,"and not, as heretofore, to the judges of assize; that, both to check abuses and watch the progress of improvement,",LJ005-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0264.wav,"inspectors of prisons should be appointed, who should visit all the prisons from time to time and report to the Secretary of State.",LJ005-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0265.wav,It was recommended that the dietaries should be submitted and approved like the rules; that convicted prisoners should not receive any food but the jail allowance;,LJ005-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0266.wav,"that food and fuel should be issued in kind, and never provided by the prisoners themselves out of monies granted them.",LJ005-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0267.wav,"The use of tobacco, hitherto pretty generally indulged in both by men and women,",LJ005-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0268.wav,"should be strictly prohibited, ""as a stimulating luxury inconsistent with any notion of strict discipline and the due pressure of just punishment.""",LJ005-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0269.wav,"Prison officers should not have any share in prisoners' earnings,",LJ005-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0270.wav,"which should be paid into general prison funds, and no part of them handed over to the prisoners themselves.",LJ005-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0271.wav,"As a means of increasing the severity of imprisonment, letters and visits from outside should not be permitted during the first six months of an imprisonment.",LJ005-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0272.wav,"Various other recommendations were made as regards the appointment of chaplain and schoolmasters; the limitation of the powers of wardsmen,",LJ005-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0273.wav,"or prisoners employed in positions of trust, who should not be permitted to traffic with their fellow-prisoners in any way.",LJ005-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0274.wav,"The committee most of all insisted upon the entire individual separation of prisoners, except during the hours of labor,",LJ005-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0275.wav,"religious worship, and instruction, as ""absolutely necessary for preventing contamination,",LJ005-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0276.wav,and for securing a proper system of prison discipline.,LJ005-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0277.wav,"This was the first enunciation of the system of separate confinement,",LJ005-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0278.wav,"which was eventually to replace the attempted arrangement of prisoners by classes according to antecedents and crimes,",LJ005-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0279.wav,an incomplete and fallacious method of preventing contamination.,LJ005-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0280.wav,The Lords' Committee fully recognized the painful fact,LJ005-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0281.wav,"that the greatest mischief followed from the intercourse which was still permitted in so many prisons; to use its words,",LJ005-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0282.wav,"the comparatively innocent are seduced, the unwary are entrapped,|the comparatively innocent are seduced, the unwary are entrapped,",LJ005-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0283.wav,"and the tendency to crime in offenders not entirely hardened is confirmed by the language, the suggestions, and the example",LJ005-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0284.wav,of more depraved and systematic criminals.,LJ005-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0285.wav,"This committee, as well as the one preceding it, also reported in terms of strong reprobation on the small prisons and jails",LJ005-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0286.wav,still under the borough corporations. The Commons' Committee gave it as their opinion that they were in a deplorable state.,LJ005-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0287.wav,"The same language was used by the commissioners appointed to inquire into the municipal corporations in 1835,",LJ005-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0288.wav,when speaking more particularly of the borough jails.,LJ005-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0289.wav,"In these the commissioners found ""additional proof of the evils of continuing the present constitution of the local tribunals.",LJ005-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0290.wav,Instances rarely occur in which the borough jails admit of any proper classification of the prisoners.,LJ005-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0291.wav,"In some large towns, as at Berwick on Tweed, Southampton, and Southwark, they (the prisons) are in a very discreditable condition.",LJ005-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0292.wav,In many of the smaller boroughs they are totally unfit for the confinement of human beings.,LJ005-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0293.wav,In these places the prisoners are often without a proper supply of air and light; frequently the jails are mere dungeons under the town hall.,LJ005-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0294.wav,"It was frequently stated in evidence that the jail of the borough was in so unfit a state for the reception of prisoners,",LJ005-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0295.wav,"that plaintiffs were unwilling to consign the defendants against whom they had obtained execution to confinement within its walls.""",LJ005-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0296.wav,"The Lords' Committee on Jails were of the same opinion, and considered the prisons under corporate or peculiar jurisdiction in a very unsatisfactory condition.",LJ005-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0297.wav,They therefore recommended that the prisoners should be removed,LJ005-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0298.wav,"to the county jails from such prisons as were past improvement, and that the borough funds should be charged for the accommodation.",LJ005-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0299.wav,"The whole question was again dealt with in Lord John Russell's bill for the reform of the municipal corporations, and with a more liberal election of town councilors,",LJ005-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ005-0300.wav,"and the establishment of municipal institutions upon a proper footing,",LJ005-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 9: The first report of the inspector of prisons.",LJ006-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0002.wav,In the preceding chapter I have been tempted by the importance of the general question to give it prominence and precedence over the particular branch of which I am treating.,LJ006-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0003.wav,Newgate has remained rather in the background while the whole of the jails as a body were under discussion.,LJ006-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0004.wav,"But this digression was necessary in order to present a more complete picture of the state of jails in the early part of the present century,",LJ006-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0005.wav,just before the public mind was first awakened to the need for thorough reform.,LJ006-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0006.wav,"I shall now return to the great jail of the city of London, and give a more detailed account of its condition and inner life",LJ006-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0007.wav,as the inspectors of prisons found them in 1835 to 6.,LJ006-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0008.wav,"These gentlemen were appointed in October 1835, owing to the strong representations of the Lords' Committee",LJ006-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0009.wav,backed up by the evidence of several influential witnesses.,LJ006-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0010.wav,"Mr. Samuel Hoare, when examined, considered it indispensably necessary, to carry out whatever system might be established,",LJ006-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0011.wav,"that inspectors should watch over the observance of the law. He saw no objection on the score of their probable interference with the local jurisdiction,",LJ006-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0012.wav,but he would not arm them with any authority lest their cooperation might be offensive.,LJ006-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0013.wav,"Sir Frederick Roe was of the same opinion as regards the appointment, but he would give the inspectors the power of acting as well as reporting.",LJ006-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0014.wav,"They should be persons, he thought, selected from the highest class; the duty was most important,",LJ006-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0015.wav,"one which required discretion, judgment, and knowledge of law, with sufficient insight and experience to discover defects in prison discipline.",LJ006-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0016.wav,These considerations no doubt had weight,LJ006-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0017.wav,"with those who made the selection of the first inspectors, and the two gentlemen appointed were probably the most fitted in England to be so employed.",LJ006-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0018.wav,"One was Mr. William Crawford, the other the Rev. Whitworth Russell.",LJ006-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0019.wav,"The first named had long been an active philanthropist, devoting himself more particularly to the reformation of juvenile criminals.",LJ006-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0020.wav,William Crawford had been one of the promoters and managers of the Philanthropic Society's farm school.,LJ006-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0021.wav,Later on he had devoted himself to the personal investigation of the prisons of the United States.,LJ006-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0022.wav,"At that time the mild and intelligent prison discipline in force in Pennsylvania, the legacy of the old Quaker immigrants,",LJ006-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0023.wav,had made such prisons as Auburn a model for imitation.,LJ006-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0024.wav,Several European states had dispatched emissaries to examine and report upon them.,LJ006-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0025.wav,"France had sent Misseurs Beaumont and De Tocqueville, who subsequently published several interesting works on the subject.",LJ006-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0026.wav,"England was represented by Mr. Crawford, and the result of his inquiry was given to the public as an appendix to the House of Commons' Report on Secondary Punishments.",LJ006-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0027.wav,"It is an able and exhaustive state paper, testifying to the keenness of the writer's perception, and his unremitting labor in pursuing his researches.",LJ006-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0028.wav,"Mr. Crawford was thoroughly versed in the still imperfectly understood science of prison management, and fully qualified for his new duties.",LJ006-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0029.wav,"The second inspector, the Rev. Whitworth Russell, was the chaplain of Millbank penitentiary,",LJ006-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0030.wav,"the great architectural experiment which grew out of the strong representations of Jeremy Bentham and others, and was the first national recognition of the principle",LJ006-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0031.wav,that punishment must be reformatory as well as deterrent.,LJ006-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0032.wav,"Messrs. Crawford and Russell proceeded to carry out their new functions with commendable energy, and without a moment's loss of time.",LJ006-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0033.wav,"The ink was barely dry upon their letters of appointment before they appeared at Newgate, and commenced a searching investigation.",LJ006-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0034.wav,"They attended early and late; they mustered the prisoners, examined into their condition,",LJ006-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0035.wav,"took voluminous evidence from all classes of individuals, from the governor down to the convict in the condemned cells.",LJ006-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0036.wav,"They visited the wards after locking-up time, and saw with their own eyes what went on.",LJ006-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0038.wav,"a subject of magnitude and importance sufficient to exclude other jails, they soon narrowed their inquiry still further,",LJ006-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0039.wav,and limited it to Newgate alone. Newgate indeed became the sole theme of their first report.,LJ006-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0040.wav,"The fact was that the years as they passed, nearly twenty in all, had worked but little permanent improvement in this detestable prison.",LJ006-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0041.wav,Changes introduced under pressure had been only skin deep.,LJ006-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0042.wav,"Relapse was rapid and inevitable, so that the latter state of the prison was worse than the first.",LJ006-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0043.wav,"The disgraceful overcrowding had been partially ended, but the same evils of indiscriminate association were still present; there was the old neglect of decency,",LJ006-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0044.wav,"the same callous indifference to the moral well-being of the prisoners, the same want of employment and of all disciplinary control.",LJ006-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0045.wav,All these evils were set forth at length in the inspectors' first report.,LJ006-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0046.wav,There was no longer the faintest possible excuse for overcrowding. The numbers now committed to Newgate had sensibly diminished.,LJ006-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0047.wav,"The prison had become more or less a place of detention only, harboring mainly those awaiting trial.",LJ006-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0048.wav,To these were still added an average of about fifty expecting the last penalty of the law; a certain number of transports awaiting removal to the colonies;,LJ006-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0049.wav,"an occasional prisoner or two committed by the Houses of Parliament, the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas,",LJ006-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0050.wav,"the Exchequer, the Commissioners of bankruptcy and of taxes; smugglers, and a larger number sentenced for very short terms,",LJ006-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0051.wav,"and for offenses of the most varying description, by the Central Criminal Court.",LJ006-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0052.wav,"The sum total thus produced was inconsiderable compared with the hundreds that had formerly filled the jail,",LJ006-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0053.wav,and the whole by proper management might have been so accommodated as to prevent overcrowding.,LJ006-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0054.wav,"But incredible as it may appear, the authorities of Newgate declined to avail themselves of the advantages offered them,",LJ006-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0055.wav,and when the population fell they shut up one half the jail and crowded up the other.,LJ006-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0056.wav,"Some rooms remained quite empty and unoccupied, while others were full to overflowing.",LJ006-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0057.wav,"Not only were the wards thus needlessly crammed, and for no reason but the niggardliness of the corporation which refused a proper supply of bedding",LJ006-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0058.wav,"but the occupants of each were huddled together indiscriminately. The inspectors found in the same wards in the chapel yard the convicted and the untried,",LJ006-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0059.wav,"the felon and the misdemeanant, the sane and the insane, the old and young offender.",LJ006-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0060.wav,"The classification prescribed by the Jail Act, which laid down that certain prisoners should not intermix, was openly neglected,",LJ006-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0061.wav,"and ""the greatest contempt shown for the law.""",LJ006-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0062.wav,In another part there were men charged with and convicted of unnatural offenses shut up with lads of tender years;,LJ006-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0063.wav,minor offenders charged with small thefts or non-payment of small sums were cheek by jowl with convicts sentenced to long terms of transportation.,LJ006-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0064.wav,"In the master's side yard, which had only one washing place, as many as seventy-eight prisoners, frequently more,",LJ006-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0065.wav,"were associated together, ""of every variety of age, habit, and delinquency, without employment, oversight, or control.""",LJ006-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0066.wav,In the middle yard it was still worse.,LJ006-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0067.wav,"Here, say the inspectors, ""are herded together the very worst class of prisoners; certainly a more wretched combination of human beings can hardly be imagined.",LJ006-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0068.wav,"We have reason to fear that poverty, ragged clothes, and an inability to pay the ward dues, elsewhere exacted for better accommodation,",LJ006-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0069.wav,"consign many of the more petty and unpracticed offenders to this place,",LJ006-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0070.wav,"where they inevitably meet with further contamination from the society of the most abandoned and incorrigible inmates of the jail.""",LJ006-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0071.wav,"No doubt the governor for the time being, Mr. Cope, was in a great measure to blame for all this, and for the want of proper classification.",LJ006-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0072.wav,"I shall have occasion to speak again, and more at length, of Mr. Cope's careless and perfunctory discharge",LJ006-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0073.wav,"of his many manifest duties, but I shall here confine myself to animadverting on his neglect as regards the appropriation of his prison.",LJ006-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0074.wav,He was unable to give any reason whatever for not utilizing the whole of the wards.,LJ006-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0075.wav,"He saw certain rooms fill up, and yet took no steps to open others that were locked up and empty.",LJ006-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0076.wav,"He blamed the construction of Newgate for the neglect of classification, and was yet compelled to confess that he had made no attempt whatever to carry it out.",LJ006-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0077.wav,"The fact was, he did not keep the classification of prisoners on first arrival in his own hands, nor even in that of his officers.",LJ006-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0078.wav,"A new prisoner's fate, as to location, rested really with a powerful fellow-prisoner.",LJ006-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0079.wav,The inspectors found that prisoners had their places assigned to them,LJ006-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0080.wav,"by the inner gatesman, himself a convicted prisoner, and a ""wardsman"" or responsible head of a room.",LJ006-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0081.wav,"The wardsman still exacted dues, of which more directly,",LJ006-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0082.wav,and this particular official took excellent care to select as residents for his own ward those most suitable from his own point of view.,LJ006-0082.wav | |