| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0083.wav,"So great is the authority exercised by him,|So great is the authority exercised by him,",LJ006-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0084.wav,"and so numerous were his opportunities of showing favoritism, that all the prisoners may be said to be in his power.",LJ006-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0085.wav,"If a man is poor and ragged, however inexperienced in crime, or however trifling may be the offense for which he has been committed",LJ006-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0086.wav,"his place is assigned among the most depraved, the most experienced, and the most incorrigible offenders in the middle yard.",LJ006-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0087.wav,It must be admitted that so far but little effort had been made to counteract the evils of indiscriminate association.,LJ006-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0088.wav,It was not likely that a system which left innocent men -- for the great bulk of new arrivals were still untried,LJ006-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0089.wav,"to be pitchforked by chance anywhere, into any sort of company,",LJ006-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0090.wav,"within this the greatest nursery of crime in London, should exercise even the commonest care for the personal decency or comfort of the prisoners.",LJ006-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0091.wav,"Their treatment was also a matter of chance. They still slept on rope mats on the floor, herded together in companies of four or more to keep one another warm",LJ006-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0092.wav,and under the scanty covering of a couple of dirty stable-rugs apiece.,LJ006-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0093.wav,"So closely did they lie together, that the inspectors at their night visits found it difficult in stepping across the room to avoid treading on them.",LJ006-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0094.wav,"Sometimes two mats were allotted to three sleepers. Sometimes four slept under the same bedding, and left their mats unoccupied.",LJ006-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0095.wav,"The rugs used were never washed; an order existed that the bedding should be taken into the yards to be aired, but it was not very punctually obeyed.",LJ006-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0096.wav,"The only convenience for personal ablutions were the pumps in the yards, and the far-off baths in the condemned or press-yard.",LJ006-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0097.wav,Water might not be taken into the ward for washing purposes.,LJ006-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0098.wav,"There was some provision of clothing, but it was quite insufficient, and nothing at all was given if prisoners had enough of their own to cover their nakedness.",LJ006-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0099.wav,"The inspectors paraded the prisoners, and found them generally ragged and ill-clad, squalid and filthy in the extreme;",LJ006-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0100.wav,"many without stockings, and with hardly shoes to their feet;",LJ006-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0101.wav,"some, who had the semblance of covering on the upper part of their feet, had no soles to the shoes, and their bare feet were on the ground.",LJ006-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0102.wav,"This, too, was in the depth of the winter, and during a most inclement season.",LJ006-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0103.wav,"The allowance of food was not illiberal,",LJ006-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0104.wav,"but its issue was precarious, and dependent on the good will of the wardsmen, who measured out the portions to each according to his eye,",LJ006-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0105.wav,"and not with weights and measures, no turnkey being present.",LJ006-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0106.wav,Too much was left to the wardsman. It was he who could issue small luxuries;,LJ006-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0107.wav,"he sold tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, although prohibited, and extra beer.",LJ006-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0108.wav,"He charged a weekly sum as ward dues for the use of knives, forks, and plates",LJ006-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0109.wav,a perpetuation under another form of the old detestable custom of garnish.,LJ006-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0110.wav,He had power where his exactions were resisted of making the ward most uncomfortable for the defaulter.,LJ006-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0111.wav,"He could trump up a false complaint against his fellow-prisoner, and so get him punished;",LJ006-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0112.wav,"he might keep him from the fire, or give him his soup or gruel in a pail instead of a basin.",LJ006-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0113.wav,"The authority of these wardsmen so improperly exalted, and so entirely unchecked, degenerated into a baneful despotism.",LJ006-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0114.wav,"They bought their offices from one another, and were thus considered to have a vested interest in them.",LJ006-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0115.wav,"Their original capital had been a few shillings, and for this they purchased the right to tax their fellows to the extent of pounds per week.",LJ006-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0116.wav,"The wardsman had a monopoly in supplying provisions, gave dinner and breakfast at his own price, and was such complete master of the ward",LJ006-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0117.wav,that none of its inmates were suffered to make tea or coffee for themselves lest it should interfere with his sales.,LJ006-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0118.wav,"He made collections when it suited him for ward purposes, to be spent as he chose, in candles and so forth.",LJ006-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0119.wav,"When the wardsman was a man of some education, with some knowledge of legal chicanery gained by personal experience, he might add considerably to his emoluments",LJ006-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0120.wav,"by drawing briefs and petitions for his fellows. There was a recognized charge of 5 shillings per brief,",LJ006-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0121.wav,"for a petition of from 1 shilling, half pence to 8 shillings, according to its length,",LJ006-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0122.wav,and by these payments a wardsman had been known to amass as much as £40.,LJ006-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0123.wav,"The man intrusted with this privilege was often the inner gatesman,",LJ006-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0124.wav,"the prisoner official already mentioned, who held the fate of new arrivals as regards location in his hands.",LJ006-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0125.wav,"It was not strange that he should sometimes misuse his power, and when prisoners were not to be cajoled into securing his legal services,",LJ006-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0126.wav,"had been known to employ threats, declaring that he was often consulted by the governor as to a prisoner's character,",LJ006-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0127.wav,"in view of speaking to it at the trial, and he could easily do them a good turn -- or a very bad one.",LJ006-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0128.wav,The brief-drawing gatesman and wardsman at the time of the inspectors' first visit must have been a particularly powerful personage.,LJ006-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0129.wav,"He was on the most intimate and improperly familiar terms with the turnkeys,",LJ006-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0130.wav,"had a key of both the master's side and middle side yards, was the only person present at the distribution of beer, and was trusted to examine,",LJ006-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0131.wav,"and, if he chose, pass in, all provisions, money, clothes, and letters brought for prisoners by their friends.",LJ006-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0132.wav,All the wardsmen alike were more or less irresponsible.,LJ006-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0133.wav,The turnkeys complained bitterly that these old prisoners had more power than they themselves.,LJ006-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0134.wav,The governor himself admitted that a prisoner of weak intellect who had been severely beaten and much injured by a wardsman did not dare complain,LJ006-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0135.wav,"the victim of this cruel ill-usage having ""more fear of the power of the wardsman to injure him, than confidence in the governor's power to protect him.""",LJ006-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0136.wav,"These wardsmen, besides thus ruling the roast, had numerous special privileges, if such they can be called.",LJ006-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0137.wav,"They were not obliged to attend chapel, and seldom if ever went; ""prisoners,"" said one of them under examination, ""did not like the trouble of going to chapel.""",LJ006-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0138.wav,"They had a standing bedstead to sleep on, and a good flock mattress; double allowance of provisions, filched from the common stock.",LJ006-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0139.wav,"Nobody interfered with them or regulated their conduct. They might get drunk when so disposed, and did so frequently, alone or in company.",LJ006-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0140.wav,"Evidence was given before the inspectors of eight or ten prisoners seen ""giddy drunk, not able to sit upon forms.""",LJ006-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0141.wav,The female wards-women were also given to intemperance.,LJ006-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0142.wav,"The matron deposed to having seen the gates-woman ""exceedingly drunk,"" and having been insulted by her.",LJ006-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0143.wav,There was no penalty attached to drunkenness.,LJ006-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0144.wav,A wardsman did not necessarily lose his situation for it. Nor was drink the only creature comfort he might enjoy.,LJ006-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0145.wav,"He could indulge in snuff if a snuff-taker,",LJ006-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0146.wav,"and might always smoke his pipe undisturbed; for although the use of tobacco had been prohibited since the report of the Lords Committee,",LJ006-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0147.wav,it was still freely introduced into the prison.,LJ006-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0148.wav,Probably authority would not have been so recklessly usurped by the wardsmen had not the proper officials too readily surrendered it.,LJ006-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0149.wav,"The turnkeys left the prisoners very much to themselves, never entering the wards after locking-up time, at dusk, till unlocking next morning,",LJ006-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0150.wav,and then only went round to count the number.,LJ006-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0151.wav,"Many of them were otherwise and improperly occupied for hours every day in menial services for the governor, cleaning his windows or grooming his horse.",LJ006-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0152.wav,One turnkey had been so employed several hours daily for nearly eleven years.,LJ006-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0153.wav,It was not strange that subordinates should neglect their duty when superiors set the example.,LJ006-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0154.wav,"Nothing was more prominently brought out by the inspectors than the inefficiency of the governor at that time, Mr. Cope.",LJ006-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0155.wav,"He may have erred in some points through ignorance, but in others he was clearly guilty of culpable neglect.",LJ006-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0156.wav,We have seen that he took no pains to classify and separate prisoners on reception.,LJ006-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0157.wav,This was only one of many grave omissions on his part. He did not feel it incumbent on himself to visit his prison often or see his prisoners.,LJ006-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0158.wav,"The act prescribed that he should do both every twenty-four hours, but days passed without his entering the wards.",LJ006-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0159.wav,The prisoners declared that they did not see him oftener than twice a week;,LJ006-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0160.wav,"one man who had been in the condemned ward for two months, said the governor only came there four times.",LJ006-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0161.wav,"Again, a turnkey deposed that his chief did not enter the wards more than once a fortnight.",LJ006-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0162.wav,But it is only fair to Mr. Cope to state that he himself said he went whenever he could find time,LJ006-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0163.wav,and that he was constantly engaged attending sessions and going with drafts to the hulks.,LJ006-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0164.wav,"But when he did visit, his inspections were of the most superficial character",LJ006-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0165.wav,"sometimes he looked at his bolts and bars, but he never examined the cupboards, coal-boxes, or other possible hiding-places for cards",LJ006-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0166.wav,"dice, dangerous implements, or other prohibited articles.",LJ006-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0167.wav,"He only attended chapel once on Sunday, never on the week-day, and generally devoted the time service was in progress",LJ006-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0168.wav,to taking the descriptions of newly-arrived prisoners.,LJ006-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0169.wav,He really did not know what passed in his jail,LJ006-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0170.wav,"and was surprised when the inspectors proved to him that practices of which he was ignorant, and which he admitted that he reprehended, went on without hindrance.",LJ006-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0171.wav,"He was satisfied to let matters run on as in the old times, he said in his own justification; with him what was, was right,",LJ006-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0172.wav,and evils that should have been speedily rooted out remained because they had the prescription of long usage.,LJ006-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0173.wav,"He kept no daily journal of occurrences, and nothing, however important, was recorded at the time.",LJ006-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0174.wav,"The aldermen never called upon him to report, and left him nearly unsupervised and uncontrolled.",LJ006-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0175.wav,In his administration of discipline he was quite uncertain;,LJ006-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0176.wav,"the punishments he inflicted were unequal,",LJ006-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0177.wav,"and it was not the least part of the blame imputed to him that he made special favorites of particular prisoners, retaining of his own accord in Newgate,",LJ006-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0178.wav,"and for years, felons who should have been sent beyond the seas.",LJ006-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0179.wav,"But, indeed, his whole rule was far too mild, and under this mistaken leniency",LJ006-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0180.wav,the interior of the jail was more like a bear-garden or the noisy purlieus of a public-house than a prison.,LJ006-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0181.wav,"It was the same old story -- evil constantly in the ascendant, the least criminal at the mercy of the most depraved.",LJ006-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0182.wav,"Under the reckless contempt for regulations,",LJ006-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0183.wav,"the apathy of the authorities, and the undue ascendancy of those who, as convicted felons, should have been most sternly repressed,",LJ006-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0184.wav,"the most hardened and the oldest in vice had the best of it, while the inexperienced beginner went to the wall.",LJ006-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0185.wav,"Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who spent three years in Newgate a little before the time of the inspectors' first report,",LJ006-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0186.wav,"said with justice that ""incredible scenes of horror occur in Newgate.""",LJ006-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0187.wav,"It was, moreover, in his opinion undoubtedly the greatest nursery of crime in London.",LJ006-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0188.wav,"The days were passed in idleness, debauchery, riotous quarreling, immoral conversation,",LJ006-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0189.wav,"gambling, indirect contravention of parliamentary rules, instruction in all nefarious processes,",LJ006-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0190.wav,"lively discourse upon past criminal exploits, elaborate discussion of others to be perpetrated after release.",LJ006-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0191.wav,"No provision whatever was made for the employment of prisoners, no materials were purchased, no trade instructors appointed.",LJ006-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0192.wav,"There was no school for adults; only the boys were taught anything, and their instructor, with his assistant, were convicted prisoners.",LJ006-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0193.wav,Idle hands and unoccupied brains found in mischief the only means of whiling away the long hours of incarceration.,LJ006-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0194.wav,"Gaming of all kinds, although forbidden by the Jail Acts, was habitually practiced.",LJ006-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0195.wav,"This was admitted in evidence by the turnkeys, and was proved by the appearance of the prison tables, which bore the marks of gaming-boards deeply cut into them.",LJ006-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0196.wav,"Prisoners confessed that it was a favorite occupation, the chief games being ""shoving halfpence"" on the table,",LJ006-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0197.wav,"pitch in the hole, cribbage, dominoes, and common tossing, at which as much as four or five shillings would change hands in an hour.",LJ006-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0198.wav,"But this was not the only amusement. Most of the wards took in the daily papers,",LJ006-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0199.wav,"the most popular being the ""Times,"" ""Morning Herald,"" and ""Morning Chronicle""; on Sunday the ""Weekly Dispatch,"" ""Bell's Life,"" and the ""Weekly Messenger.""",LJ006-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0200.wav,"The newsman had free access to the prison; he passed in unsearched and unexamined, and, unaccompanied by an officer,",LJ006-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0201.wav,"went at once to his customers, who bought their paper and paid for it themselves.",LJ006-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0202.wav,"The news-vendor was also a tobacconist,",LJ006-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0203.wav,and he had thus ample means of introducing to the prisoners the prohibited but always much-coveted and generally procurable weed.,LJ006-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0204.wav,In the same way the wardsman laid in his stock to be retailed. Other light literature besides the daily journals were in circulation:,LJ006-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0205.wav,"novels, flash songs, play-books, such as ""Jane Shore,"" ""Grimm's German Tales,"" with Cruikshank's illustrations,",LJ006-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0206.wav,and publications which in these days would have been made the subject of a criminal prosecution.,LJ006-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0207.wav,"One of these, published by Stockdale, the inspectors styled ""a book of the most disgusting nature.""",LJ006-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0208.wav,"There was also a good supply of Bibles and prayers,",LJ006-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0209.wav,"the donation of a philanthropic gentleman, Captain Brown, but these, particularly the Bibles, bore little appearance of having been used.",LJ006-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0210.wav,"Drink, in more or less unlimited quantities, was still to be had.",LJ006-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0211.wav,"Spirits certainly were now excluded; but a potman, with full permission of the sheriffs,",LJ006-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0212.wav,"brought in beer for sale from a neighboring public-house, and visited all the wards with no other escort than the prisoner gatesman.",LJ006-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0213.wav,The quantity to be issued per head was limited by the prison regulations to one pint,LJ006-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0214.wav,but no steps were taken to prevent any prisoner from obtaining more if he could pay for it.,LJ006-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0215.wav,The beer-man brought in as much as he pleased; he sold it without the controlling presence of an officer.,LJ006-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0216.wav,"Not only did prisoners come again and again for a ""pint,"" but large quantities were carried off to the wards to be drunk later in the day.",LJ006-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0217.wav,"There were more varied, and at times, especially when beer had circulated freely, more uproarious diversions.",LJ006-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0218.wav,"Wrestling, in which legs were occasionally broken, was freely indulged in; also such low games as ""cobham,""",LJ006-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0219.wav,"leap-frog, puss in the corner, and ""fly the garter,"" for which purpose the rugs were spread out to prevent feet slipping on the floor.",LJ006-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0220.wav,Feasting alternated with fighting.,LJ006-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0221.wav,"The weekly introduction of food, to which I shall presently refer, formed the basis of luxurious banquets, washed down by liquor",LJ006-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0222.wav,"and enlivened by flash songs and thrilling long-winded descriptions of robberies and other ""plants.""",LJ006-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0223.wav,"There was much swearing and bad language, the very worst that could be used, from the first thing in the morning to the last thing at night.",LJ006-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0224.wav,"New arrivals, especially the innocent and still guileless debutant, were tormented with rude horse-play, and assailed by the most insulting ""chaff.""",LJ006-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0225.wav,If any man presumed to turn in too early,LJ006-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0226.wav,"he was ""toed,"" that is to say, a string was fastened to his big toe while he was asleep, and he was dragged from off his mat,",LJ006-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0227.wav,or his bedclothes were drawn away across the room.,LJ006-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0228.wav,"The ragged part of the prisoners were very anxious to destroy the clothes of the better dressed, and often lighted small pieces of cloth,",LJ006-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0229.wav,which they dropped smoldering into their fellow-prisoners' pockets.,LJ006-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0230.wav,"Often the victim, goaded to madness, attacked his tormentors; a fight was then certain to follow.",LJ006-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0231.wav,"These fights sometimes took place in the daytime, when a ring was regularly formed, and two or three stood by the door to watch for the officer's approach.",LJ006-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0232.wav,"More often they occurred at night, and were continued to the bitter end.",LJ006-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0233.wav,The prisoners in this way administered serious punishment on one another. Black eyes and broken noses were always to be seen.,LJ006-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0234.wav,"More cruel injuries were common enough, which did not result from honest hand-to-hand fights.",LJ006-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0235.wav,The surgeon's journal produced to the inspectors contained numerous entries of terrible wounds inflicted in a cowardly way.,LJ006-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0236.wav,A serious accident: one of the prisoners had a hot poker run into his eye.,LJ006-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0237.wav,"A lad named Matthew White has had a wound in his eye by a bone thrown at him, which very nearly destroyed vision.",LJ006-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0238.wav,"There was a disturbance in the transport yard yesterday evening, and the police were called in.|There was a disturbance in the transport yard yesterday evening, and the police were called in.",LJ006-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0239.wav,"During the tumult a prisoner, who was one of the worst of the rioters, was bruised about the head and body.",LJ006-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0240.wav,Watkins' knee-joint is very severely injured.,LJ006-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0241.wav,A prisoner Baxter is in the infirmary in consequence of a severe injury to his wrist-joint.,LJ006-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0242.wav,"Watkins' case, referred to above, is made the subject of another and a special report from the surgeon.",LJ006-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0243.wav,"He was in the transport side, when one of his fellows, in endeavoring to strike another prisoner with a large poker, missed his aim, and struck Watkins' knee",LJ006-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0244.wav,"Violent inflammation and extensive suppuration ensued, and for a considerable time amputation seemed inevitable.",LJ006-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0245.wav,"After severe suffering prolonged for many months, the inflammation was subdued, but the cartilage of the knee-joint was destroyed, and he was crippled for life.",LJ006-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0246.wav,"On another occasion a young man, who was being violently teased, seized a knife and stabbed his tormentor in the back.",LJ006-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0247.wav,"The prisoner who used the knife was secured, but it was the wardsman, and not the officers, to whom the report was made, and no official inquiry or punishment followed.",LJ006-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0248.wav,"Matters were at times still worse, and the rioting went on to such dangerous lengths as to endanger the safety of the building.",LJ006-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0249.wav,On one occasion a disturbance was raised which was not quelled until windows had been broken and forms and tables burnt.,LJ006-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0250.wav,"The officers were obliged to go in among the prisoners to restore order with drawn cutlasses,",LJ006-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0251.wav,but the presence and authority of the governor himself became indispensable.,LJ006-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0252.wav,"The worst fights occurred on Sunday afternoons; but nearly every night the act of locking up became, from the consequent removal of all supervision,",LJ006-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0253.wav,"the signal for the commencement of obscene talk, revelry, and violence.",LJ006-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0254.wav,Other regulations laid down by the Jail Acts were still defied. One of these was that prisoners should be restricted to the jail allowance of food;,LJ006-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0255.wav,"but all could still obtain as much extra, and of a luxurious kind, as their friends chose to bring them in.",LJ006-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0256.wav,"Visitors were still permitted to come with supplies on given days of the week, about the only limitation being that the food should be cooked, and cold;",LJ006-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0257.wav,"hot meat, poultry, and fish were also forbidden.",LJ006-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0258.wav,"But the inspectors found in the ward cupboards mince-pies and other pasties, cold joints, hams, and so forth.",LJ006-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0259.wav,"Many other articles were introduced by visitors, including money, tobacco, pipes, and snuff.",LJ006-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0260.wav,"From the same source came the two or three strong files which the inspectors found in one ward,",LJ006-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0261.wav,"together with four bradawls, several large iron spikes, screws, nails, and knives;",LJ006-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0262.wav,"all of them instruments calculated to facilitate attempts at breaking out of prison,",LJ006-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0263.wav,and capable of becoming most dangerous weapons in the hands of desperate and determined men.,LJ006-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0264.wav,"The nearly indiscriminate admission of visitors, although restricted to certain days, continued to be an unmixed evil.",LJ006-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0265.wav,"The untried might see their friends three times a week, the convicted only once.",LJ006-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0266.wav,"On these occasions precautions were supposed to be taken to exclude bad characters,",LJ006-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0267.wav,yet many persons of notoriously loose life continually obtained egress.,LJ006-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0268.wav,Women saw men if they merely pretended to be wives; even boys were visited by their sweethearts.,LJ006-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0269.wav,"Decency was, however, insured by a line of demarcation, and visitors were kept upon each side of a separated double iron railing.",LJ006-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0270.wav,"But no search was made to intercept prohibited articles at the gate, and there was no permanent gate-keeper,",LJ006-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0271.wav,"which would have greatly helped to keep out bad characters. Some idea of the difficulty and inconvenience of these lax regulations as regards visiting,",LJ006-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0272.wav,may be gathered from the statement that as many as three hundred were often admitted on the same day,LJ006-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0273.wav,enough to altogether upset what small show of decorum and discipline was still preserved in the prison.,LJ006-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0274.wav,"Perhaps the worst feature of the visiting system was the permission accorded to male prisoners ""under the name of husbands, brothers, and sons""",LJ006-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0275.wav,"to have access to the female side on Sundays and Wednesdays, in order to visit their supposed relations there.",LJ006-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0276.wav,"On this female side, where the Ladies' Association still reigned supreme, more system and a greater semblance of decorum was maintained.",LJ006-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0277.wav,"But there were evils akin to those on the male side, prominent amongst which was the undue influence accorded to prisoners.",LJ006-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0278.wav,A female prisoner kept the registers.,LJ006-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0279.wav,"Wards-women were allowed much the same authority, with the same temptations to excess, and intoxication was not unknown among them and others.",LJ006-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0280.wav,"The clothing was still meager and ragged: the washing places insufficient, and wanting in decency;",LJ006-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0281.wav,in some yards,LJ006-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0282.wav,"the pump was the only provision, and this in a place within sight of visitors, of the windows of the male turnkeys, and unprotected from the weather.",LJ006-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0283.wav,There was the same crowding in the sleeping arrangements as on the male side; the same scarcity of bedding.,LJ006-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0284.wav,"It was a special evil of this part of the prison, that the devotional exercises, originally so profitable, had grown into a kind of edifying spectacle,",LJ006-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0285.wav,which numbers of well-meaning but inquisitive people were anxious to witness.,LJ006-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0286.wav,"Thus, when the inspectors visited there were twenty-three strangers, and only twenty-eight prisoners.",LJ006-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0287.wav,"The presence of so many strangers, many of them gentlemen, distracted the prisoners' attention, and could not be productive of much good.",LJ006-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0288.wav,The separation of the sexes was not indeed rigidly carried out in Newgate as yet.,LJ006-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0289.wav,"We have seen that male prisoners visited their female relations and friends on the female side. Besides this,",LJ006-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0290.wav,the gatesman who prepared the briefs had interviews with female prisoners alone while taking their instructions; a female came alone and unaccompanied by a matron,LJ006-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0291.wav,to clean the governor's office in the male prison;,LJ006-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0292.wav,"male prisoners carried coal into the female prison, when they saw and could speak or pass letters to the female prisoners;",LJ006-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0293.wav,"and the men could also at any time go for tea, coffee, and sugar to Mrs. Brown's shop, which was inside the female gate.",LJ006-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0294.wav,"In the bail-dock, where most improper general association was permitted, the female prisoners were often altogether in the charge of male turnkeys.",LJ006-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0295.wav,"The governor was also personally responsible for gross contravention of this rule of separation,",LJ006-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0296.wav,and was in the habit of drawing frequently upon the female prison for prisoners to act as domestic servants in his own private dwelling.,LJ006-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0297.wav,"Some member of the Ladies' Association observed and commented upon the fact that a ""young rosy-cheeked girl"" had been kept by the governor from transportation,",LJ006-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0298.wav,while older women in infirm health were sent across the seas.,LJ006-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0299.wav,"His excuse was that he had given the girl his promise that she should not go, an assumption of prerogative which by no means rested with him;",LJ006-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0300.wav,"but he afterwards admitted that the girl had been recommended to him by the principal turnkey, who knew something of her friends.",LJ006-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0301.wav,"This woman was really his servant, employed to help in cleaning, and taken on whenever there was extra work to be done.",LJ006-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0302.wav,"The governor had a great dislike, he said, to seeing strangers in his house.",LJ006-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0303.wav,This girl had been first engaged on account of the extra work entailed by certain prisoners,LJ006-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0304.wav,"committed by the House of Commons, who had been lodged in the governor's own house.",LJ006-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0305.wav,The house at this time was full of men and visitors; waiters came in from the taverns with meals.,LJ006-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0306.wav,"Some of the prisoners had their valets, and all these were constantly in and out of the kitchen where this female prisoner was employed.",LJ006-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0307.wav,"There was reveling and roistering, as usual, with ""high life below-stairs.",LJ006-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ006-0308.wav,"The governor sent down wine on festive occasions, of which no doubt the prisoner housemaid had her share.",LJ006-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 10: The first report of the inspector of prisons.",LJ007-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0002.wav,"Eighteen years had elapsed since the formation of the ""Ladies' Association,""",LJ007-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0003.wav,"and Mrs. Fry with her colleagues still labored assiduously in Newgate, devoting themselves mainly to the female prison,",LJ007-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0004.wav,although their ministrations were occasionally extended to the male side.,LJ007-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0005.wav,"The inspectors paid tribute to the excellence of the motives of these philanthropic ladies, and recognized the good they did.",LJ007-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0006.wav,"They had introduced ""much order and cleanliness,""",LJ007-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0007.wav,"had provided work for those who had hitherto passed their time in total idleness, and had made the treatment of female transports on the way to New South Wales",LJ007-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0008.wav,their especial care.,LJ007-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0009.wav,"They had tried, moreover,",LJ007-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0010.wav,"by their presence and their pious, disinterested efforts, to restrain the dissolute manners and vicious language of the unhappy and depraved inmates.",LJ007-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0011.wav,"But it was already plain that they constituted an independent authority within the jails; they were frequently in conflict with the chaplain,",LJ007-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0012.wav,who not strangely resented the orders issued by the aldermen,LJ007-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0013.wav,that women should be frequently kept from chapel in order that they might attend the ladies' lectures and exhortations.,LJ007-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0014.wav,"The admission of a crowd of visitors to assist in these lay services has already been remarked upon; as the inspectors pointed out,",LJ007-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0015.wav,"it had the bad effect of distracting attention,",LJ007-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0016.wav,"it tended to ""dissipate reflection, diminish the gloom of the prison, and mitigate the punishment which the law has sentenced the prisoner to undergo.""",LJ007-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0017.wav,"It is to be feared too that although the surface was thus whitewashed and decorous, much that was vicious still festered and rankled beneath,",LJ007-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0018.wav,"and that when the restraining influences of the ladies were absent, the female prisoners relapsed into immoral and uncleanly discourse.",LJ007-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0019.wav,"Even in the daytime, when supervision was withdrawn, ""the language used to be dreadful,"" says one of the women when under examination;",LJ007-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0020.wav,"swearing and talking of what crimes they had committed, and how they had done it. Another witness declared she had heard the most shocking language in the yard; she said",LJ007-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0021.wav,"she had never witnessed such scenes before, and hopes she never shall again -- it was dreadful!",LJ007-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0022.wav,"After locking-up time, which varied, as on the male side, according to the daylight, the scenes were often riotous and disgraceful.",LJ007-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0023.wav,"The poor, who could afford no luxuries, went to bed early, but were kept awake by the revelries of the rich,",LJ007-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0024.wav,"who supped royally on the supplies provided from outside, and kept it up till ten or eleven o'clock.",LJ007-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0025.wav,There were frequent quarrels and fights; shoes and other missiles were freely bandied about;,LJ007-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0026.wav,"and with all this ""the most dreadful oaths, the worst language, too bad to be repeated,"" were made use of every night.",LJ007-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0027.wav,"Bad as were the various parts of the jail already dealt with,",LJ007-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0028.wav,there still remained one where the general callous indifference and mismanagement culminated in cruel culpable neglect.,LJ007-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0029.wav,"The condition of the capitally-convicted prisoners after sentence was still very disgraceful. The side they occupied, still known as the press-yard,",LJ007-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0030.wav,"consisted of two dozen rooms and fifteen cells. In these various chambers, until just before the inspectors made their report,",LJ007-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0031.wav,"all classes of the condemned, those certain to suffer, and the larger number who were nearly certain of a reprieve,",LJ007-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0032.wav,"were jumbled up together, higgledy-piggledy, the old and the young, the murderer and the child who had broken into a dwelling.",LJ007-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0033.wav,All privacy was impossible under the circumstances.,LJ007-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0034.wav,"At times the numbers congregated together were very great; as many as fifty and sixty, even more, were crowded indiscriminately into the press-yard.",LJ007-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0035.wav,The better-disposed complained bitterly of what they had to endure;,LJ007-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0036.wav,"one man declared that the language of the condemned rooms was disgusting, that he was dying a death every day in being compelled to associate with such characters.",LJ007-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0037.wav,In the midst of the noisy and blasphemous talk no one could pursue his meditations; any who tried to pray became the sport and ridicule of his brutal fellows.,LJ007-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0038.wav,"Owing to the repeated entreaties of the criminals who could hardly hope to escape the gallows, some show of classification was carried out,",LJ007-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0039.wav,and when the inspectors visited Newgate they found the three certain to die in a day-room by themselves;,LJ007-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0040.wav,in a second room were fourteen more who had every hope of a reprieve.,LJ007-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0041.wav,"The whole of these seventeen had, however, a common airing-yard, and took their exercise there at the same time,",LJ007-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0042.wav,"so that men in the most awful situation, daily expecting to be hanged,",LJ007-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0043.wav,were associated continually with a number of those who could look with certainty on a mitigation of punishment.,LJ007-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0044.wav,"The latter, light-hearted and reckless, conducted themselves in the most unseemly fashion, and ""with as much indifference as the inmates of the other parts of the prison.""",LJ007-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0045.wav,"They amused themselves after their own fashion; played all day long at blind-man's-buff and leap-frog, or beat each other with a knotted handkerchief,",LJ007-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0046.wav,"laughing and uproarious, utterly unmindful of the companionship of men upon whom lay the shadow of an impending shameful death.",LJ007-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0047.wav,"Men whose cases were dangerous, and those most seriously inclined, complained of these annoyances,",LJ007-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0048.wav,"so subversive of meditation, so disturbing to the thoughts;",LJ007-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0049.wav,"they suffered sickening anxiety, and wished to be locked up alone. This indiscriminate association lasted for months,",LJ007-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0050.wav,during the whole of which time the unhappy convicts who had but little hope of commutation were exposed to the mockery of their reckless associates.,LJ007-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0051.wav,"The brutal callousness of the bulk of the inmates of the press-yard may be gathered from the prison punishment-book, which frequently recorded such entries as the following:",LJ007-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0052.wav,Benjamin Vines and Daniel Ward put in irons for two days for breaking the windows of the day room in the condemned cells.,LJ007-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0053.wav,"Joseph Coleman put in irons for three days for striking one of the prisoners, in the same place.",LJ007-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0054.wav,"There were disputes and quarrels constantly among these doomed men; it was a word and blow, an argument clenched always with a fight.",LJ007-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0055.wav,"The more peaceably disposed found some occupation in making Newgate tokens,",LJ007-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0056.wav,"leaden hearts, and ""grinding the impressions off penny-pieces, then pricking figures or words on them to give to their friends as memorials.",LJ007-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0057.wav,"Turnkeys occasionally visited the press-yard, but its occupants were under little or no control.",LJ007-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0058.wav,"The chaplain, who might have been expected to make these men his peculiar care, and who at one time had visited them frequently, often several times a week,",LJ007-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0059.wav,"had relaxed his efforts, because, according to his own account, he was so frequently stopped in the performance of his duties.",LJ007-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0060.wav,"In his evidence before the inspectors he declared that ""for years he gave his whole time to his duties, from an early hour in the morning till late in the afternoon.",LJ007-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0061.wav,"He left off because he was so much interfered with and laughed at, and from seeing that no success attended his efforts, owing to the evils arising from association.",LJ007-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0062.wav,"Latterly his ministrations to the condemned had been restricted to a visit on Sunday afternoons, and occasionally about once a fortnight on a week-day.",LJ007-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0063.wav,"It is only fair to Mr. Cotton to add that, according to his own journal, he was unremitting in his attentions to convicts who were actually cast for death,",LJ007-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0064.wav,and the day of whose execution was fixed. He had no doubt a difficult mission to discharge;,LJ007-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0065.wav,"on the one hand, the Ladies' Association, supported and encouraged by public approval, trenched upon his peculiar province;",LJ007-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0066.wav,"on the other, the governor of the jail sneered at his zeal",LJ007-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0067.wav,"stigmatized his often most just strictures on abuses as ""a bundle of nonsense,"" and the aldermen, when he appealed to them for protection and countenance,",LJ007-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0068.wav,generally sided with his opponents. Nevertheless the inspectors summed up against him.,LJ007-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0069.wav,"While admitting that he had had many difficulties to contend with,",LJ007-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0070.wav,"and that he had again and again protested against the obstacles thrown in his way, the inspectors ""cannot forbear expressing their opinion that he might have shown greater perseverance,",LJ007-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0071.wav,in the face of impediments confessedly discouraging,LJ007-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0072.wav,"as regards the private teaching of prisoners; and they went on to say that ""a resolved adherence, in spite of discouragements the most disheartening,",LJ007-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0073.wav,to that line of conduct which his duty imposed on him,LJ007-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0074.wav,"would, it is probable, have eventually overcome the reluctance of some of the prisoners at least, and would have possessed so much moral dignity",LJ007-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0075.wav,as effectually to rebuke and abash the profane spirit of the more insolent and daring of the criminals.,LJ007-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0076.wav,The lax discipline maintained in Newgate was still further deteriorated by the presence of two other classes of prisoners who ought never to have been inmates of such a jail.,LJ007-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0077.wav,"One of these were the criminal lunatics, who were at this time and for long previous continuously imprisoned there.",LJ007-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0078.wav,"As the law stood since the passing of the 9th George IV. c. 40, any two justices might remove a prisoner found to be insane, either on commitment",LJ007-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0079.wav,"or arraignment, to an asylum, and the Secretary of State had the same power as regards any who became insane while undergoing sentence.",LJ007-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0080.wav,"These powers were not invariably put in force, and there were in consequence many unhappy lunatics in Newgate and other jails,",LJ007-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0081.wav,whose proper place was the asylum.,LJ007-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0082.wav,"At the time the Lords' Committee sat there were eight thus retained in Newgate, and a return in the appendix of the Lords' report",LJ007-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0083.wav,"gives a total of thirty-nine lunatics confined in various jails, many of them guilty of murder and other serious crimes.",LJ007-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0084.wav,"The inspectors in the following year, on examining the facts, found that some of these poor creatures had been in confinement for long periods:",LJ007-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0085.wav,"at Newgate and York Castle as long as five years; ""at Ilchester and Morpeth for seven years; at Warwick for eight years,",LJ007-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0086.wav,at Buckingham and Hereford for eleven years,LJ007-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0087.wav,"at Appleby for thirteen years, at Anglesea for fifteen years, at Exeter for sixteen years, and at Pembroke",LJ007-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0088.wav,for not less a period than twenty-four years.,LJ007-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0089.wav,"It was manifestly wrong that such persons, ""visited by the most awful of calamities,"" should be detained in a common prison.",LJ007-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0090.wav,"Not only did their presence tend greatly to interfere with the discipline of the prison, but their condition was deplorable in the extreme.",LJ007-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0091.wav,The lunatic became the sport of the idle and the depraved. His cure was out of the question;,LJ007-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0092.wav,"he was placed in a situation ""beyond all others calculated to confirm his malady and prolong his sufferings.""",LJ007-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0093.wav,The matter was still further complicated at Newgate by the presence within the walls of sham lunatics. Some of those included in the category,LJ007-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0094.wav,"had actually been returned as sane from the asylum to which they had been sent, and there was always some uncertainty as to who was mad and who not.",LJ007-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0095.wav,Prisoners indeed were known to boast that they had saved their necks by feigning insanity.,LJ007-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0096.wav,It was high time that the unsatisfactory state of the law as regards the treatment of criminal lunatics should be remedied,LJ007-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0097.wav,"and not the least of the good services rendered by the new inspectors was their inquiry into the status of these unfortunate people, and their recommendation to improve it.",LJ007-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0098.wav,"The other inmates of the prison of an exceptional character, and exempted from the regular discipline, such as it was,",LJ007-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0099.wav,were the ten persons committed to Newgate by the House of Commons in 1835.,LJ007-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0100.wav,"These were the gentlemen concerned in the bribery case at Ipswich in 1835,",LJ007-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0101.wav,"when a petition was presented against the return of Messrs. Adam Dundas and Fitzroy Kelly. Various witnesses, including Messrs. J. B. Dasent,",LJ007-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0102.wav,"Pilgrim, Bond, and Clamp, had refused to give evidence before the House of Commons' Committee; a Speaker's warrant was issued for their arrest when they absconded.",LJ007-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0103.wav,Mr. J. E. Sparrow and Mr. Clipperton,LJ007-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0104.wav,"the parliamentary agents of the members whose election was impugned, were implicated in aiding and abetting the others to abscond, and a Mr. O'Mally,",LJ007-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0105.wav,"counsel for the two M.P.'s, was also concerned.",LJ007-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0106.wav,"Pilgrim and Dasent were caught and given into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, and the rest were either arrested or they surrendered.",LJ007-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0107.wav,"A resolution at once passed the House without division to commit the whole to Newgate, where they remained for various terms.",LJ007-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0108.wav,"Dasent and Pilgrim were released in ten days, on making due submission.",LJ007-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0109.wav,"O'Mally sent in a medical certificate, declaring that the imprisonment was endangering his life, and after some question he was also released.",LJ007-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0110.wav,"The rest were detained for more than a month, it being considered that they were the most guilty, as being either professional agents, who advised the others to abscond,",LJ007-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0111.wav,or witnesses who did not voluntarily come forward when the chance was given them.,LJ007-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0112.wav,"Many of the old customs once prevalent in the State Side, so properly condemned and abolished,",LJ007-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0113.wav,"were revived for the convenience of these gentlemen, whose incarceration was thus rendered as little like imprisonment as possible.",LJ007-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0114.wav,"A certain number, who could afford the high rate of a guinea per diem, fixed by the under sheriff, were lodged in the governor's house,",LJ007-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0115.wav,"slept there, and had their meals provided for them from the Sessions House or London Coffee-House.",LJ007-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0116.wav,"A few others, who could not afford a payment of more than half a guinea, were permitted to monopolize a part of the prison infirmary,",LJ007-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0117.wav,"where the upper ward was exclusively appropriated to their use. They also had their meals sent in, and, with the food, wine almost ad libitum.",LJ007-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0118.wav,"A prisoner, one of the wardsmen, waited on those in the infirmary; the occupants of the governor's house had their own servants, or the governor's.",LJ007-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0119.wav,"As a rule, visitors, many of them persons of good position, came and went all day long, and as late as nine at night;",LJ007-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0120.wav,"some to the infirmary, many more to the governor's house.",LJ007-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0121.wav,"There were no restraints, cards and backgammon were played, and the time passed in feasting and revelry.",LJ007-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0122.wav,"Even Mr. Cope admitted that the committal of this class of prisoners to Newgate was most inconvenient,",LJ007-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0123.wav,and the inspectors expressed themselves still more strongly in reprehension of the practice.,LJ007-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0124.wav,The infirmary at this particular period epitomized the condition of the jail at large.,LJ007-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0125.wav,"It was diverted from its proper uses, and, as the ""place of the greatest comfort,"" was allotted to persons who should not have been sent to Newgate at all.",LJ007-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0126.wav,All the evils of indiscriminate association were strongly accentuated by the crowd collected within its narrow limits.,LJ007-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0127.wav,"It may easily be imagined, say the inspectors, in speaking of the prison generally,",LJ007-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0128.wav,"what must be the state of discipline in a place filled with characters so various as were assembled there, where the tried and the untried, the sick and the healthy,|what must be the state of discipline in a place filled with characters so various as were assembled there, where the tried and the untried, the sick and the healthy,",LJ007-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0129.wav,"the sane and the insane, the young and the old, the trivial offender and the man about to suffer the extreme penalty of the law,",LJ007-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0130.wav,"are all huddled together without discrimination, oversight, or control.""",LJ007-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0131.wav,Enough has probably been extracted from this most damnatory report to give a complete picture of the disgraceful state in which Newgate still remained in 1835.,LJ007-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0132.wav,"The inspectors, however, honestly admitted that although the site of the prison was convenient, its construction was as bad as bad could be.",LJ007-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0133.wav,"Valuable space was cumbered with many long and winding passages, numerous staircases, and unnecessarily thick and cumbrous inner walls.",LJ007-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0134.wav,"The wards were in some cases spacious, but they were entirely unsuited for separation or the inspection of prisoners.",LJ007-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0135.wav,"The yards were narrow and confined, mainly because the ground plan was radically vicious. These were evils inseparable from the place.",LJ007-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0136.wav,But there were others remediable under a better system of management.,LJ007-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0137.wav,"More attention to ventilation, which was altogether neglected and inadequate, would have secured a better atmosphere for the unhappy inmates",LJ007-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0138.wav,"who constantly breathed an air heavy, and, when the wards were first opened in the morning, particularly offensive.",LJ007-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0139.wav,"Again, the discipline commonly deemed inseparable from every place of durance was entirely wanting.",LJ007-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0140.wav,"The primary object of committing a prisoner to jail, as the inspectors pointed out, was to deter not only the criminal himself, but others from crime,",LJ007-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0141.wav,"and ""to dispose him, by meditation and seclusion, to return to an honest life.""",LJ007-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0142.wav,"But at Newgate the convicted prisoner, instead of privation and hard fare,",LJ007-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0143.wav,"is permitted to purchase whatever his own means or the means of his friends in or out of prison can afford,|is permitted to purchase whatever his own means or the means of his friends in or out of prison can afford,",LJ007-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0144.wav,"and he can almost invariably procure the luxuries of his class of life, beer and tobacco, in abundance.",LJ007-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0145.wav,"Instead of seclusion and meditation, his time is passed in the midst of a body of criminals of every class and degree, in riot, debauchery, and gaming,",LJ007-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0146.wav,"vaunting his own adventures, or listening to those of others;",LJ007-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0147.wav,"communicating his own skill and aptitude in crime, or acquiring the lessons of greater adepts. He has access to newspapers, and of course",LJ007-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0148.wav,"prefers that description which are expressly prepared for his own class, and which abound in vulgar adventure in criminal enterprise, and in the histories of the police,",LJ007-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0149.wav,"the jail, and the scaffold.",LJ007-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0150.wav,"He is allowed intercourse with prostitutes who, in nine cases out of ten, have originally conduced to his ruin;",LJ007-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0151.wav,and his connection with them is confirmed by that devotion and generosity towards their paramours in adversity for which these otherwise degraded women are remarkable.,LJ007-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0152.wav,"Having thus passed his time, he returns a greater adept in crime, with a wider acquaintance among criminals, and, what perhaps is even more injurious to him,",LJ007-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0153.wav,"is generally known to all the worst men in the country; not only without the inclination, but almost without the ability of returning to an honest life.""",LJ007-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0154.wav,"These pungent and well-grounded strictures applied with still greater force to the unconvicted prisoner, the man who came to the prison innocent, and still uncontaminated,",LJ007-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0155.wav,"to be subjected to the same baneful influences, and to suffer the same moral deterioration, whether ultimately convicted or set free.",LJ007-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0156.wav,"The whole system, or more correctly the want of system, was baneful and pernicious to the last degree.",LJ007-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0157.wav,"The evils of such association were aggravated by the unbroken idleness; one ""evil inflamed the other;"" reformation",LJ007-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0158.wav,"or any kind of moral improvement was impossible; the prisoner's career was inevitably downward, till he struck the lowest depths.",LJ007-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0159.wav,Forced and constant intercourse with the most depraved individuals of his own class;,LJ007-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0160.wav,the employment of those means and agents by which the lowest passions and the most vulgar propensities of man are perpetually kept in the highest state of excitement,LJ007-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0161.wav,"drink, gaming, obscene and blasphemous language; utter idleness, the almost unrestricted admission of money and luxuries;",LJ007-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0162.wav,"uncontrolled conversation with visitors of the very worst description -- prostitutes, thieves, receivers of stolen goods",LJ007-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0163.wav,all the tumultuous and diversified passions and emotions which circumstances like these must necessarily generate,LJ007-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0164.wav,forbid the faintest shadow of a hope that in a soil so unfavorable for moral culture,LJ007-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0165.wav,"any awakening truth, salutary exhortation, or imperfect resolutions of amendment can take root or grow.",LJ007-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0166.wav,"Strong as were the foregoing remarks, the inspectors wound up their report in still more trenchant language",LJ007-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0167.wav,framing a terrible indictment against those responsible for the condition of Newgate. Their words deserve to be quoted in full.,LJ007-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0168.wav,"We cannot close these remarks, say the inspectors, ""without an expression of the painful feelings with which we submit to your Lordship",LJ007-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0169.wav,this picture of the existing state of Newgate,LJ007-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0170.wav,"That in this vast metropolis, the center of wealth, civilization, and information;",LJ007-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0171.wav,"distinguished as the seat of religion, worth, and philanthropy,",LJ007-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0172.wav,"where is to be found in operation every expedient by which Ignorance may be superseded by Knowledge, Idleness by Industry, and Suffering by Benevolence;",LJ007-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0173.wav,"that in the metropolis of this highly-favored country, to which the eyes of other lands turn for example, a system of prison discipline such as that enforced in Newgate",LJ007-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0174.wav,"should be for a number of years in undisturbed operation, not only in contempt of religion and humanity,",LJ007-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0175.wav,"but in opposition to the recorded denunciations of authority, and in defiance of the express enactments of the law,",LJ007-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0176.wav,is indeed a subject which cannot but impress every considerate mind with humiliation and sorrow.,LJ007-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0177.wav,"We trust, however, that the day is at hand when this stain will be removed from the character of the city of London,",LJ007-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0178.wav,"and when the first municipal authority of our land will be no longer subjected to the reproach of fostering an institution which outrages the rights and feelings of humanity,",LJ007-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0179.wav,"defeats the ends of justice, and disgraces the profession of a Christian country.",LJ007-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0180.wav,"The publication of this report raised a storm in the city, and the corporation was roused to make an immediate protest.",LJ007-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0181.wav,"A committee of aldermen was forthwith appointed to report upon the inspectors' report,",LJ007-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0182.wav,"and the result was another lengthy blue book, printed in the parliamentary papers, 1836,",LJ007-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0183.wav,"traversing where it was possible the statements of the inspectors, and offering explanation and palliation of such evils as could not be denied.",LJ007-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0184.wav,"The inspectors retorted without loss of time, reiterating their charges, and pointing out that the committee of aldermen by its own admission",LJ007-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0185.wav,"justified the original allegations. It was impossible to deny the indiscriminate association; the gambling, drinking, smoking, quarreling in the jail;",LJ007-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0186.wav,"the undue authority given to prisoners, the levying of garnish under another name",LJ007-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0187.wav,"the neglect of the condemned convicts, the filthy condition of the wards, the insufficiency of bedding and clothing,",LJ007-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0188.wav,the misemployment of officers and prisoners by the governor.,LJ007-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0189.wav,"The corporation evidently had the worst of it, and began to feel the necessity for undertaking the great work of reform.",LJ007-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0190.wav,"Next year we find the inspectors expressing their satisfaction that ""the full and faithful exposure which we felt it our duty to make of Newgate",LJ007-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0191.wav,"has been productive of at least some advantage,",LJ007-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0192.wav,inasmuch as it has aroused the attention of those upon whom parliamentary reports and grand jury presentments had hitherto failed to make the slightest impression.,LJ007-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0193.wav,The measures of improvement introduced were mainly as follows:,LJ007-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0194.wav,"the fixing of ""inspection holes"" in the doors and walls, so as to insure more supervision; of windows opening into the well-holes,",LJ007-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0195.wav,"to give better light and ventilation; the construction of bed-places, three tiers high alongside the walls for males, two tiers for females;",LJ007-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0196.wav,the provision of dining-rooms and dining-tables.,LJ007-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0197.wav,"The infirmary was enlarged, the admission of visitors limited, and the passing of articles prevented by a wire screen.",LJ007-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0198.wav,The windows were to be glazed and painted to prevent prisoners from looking out;,LJ007-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0199.wav,"baths, fumigating places for clothing, wash-house, and the removal of dust-bins, completed the new arrangements in the main prison.",LJ007-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0200.wav,"In the press-yard, the press-room and ward above it were parceled out into nine separate sleeping cells;",LJ007-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0201.wav,"each was provided with an iron bedstead, and a small desk at which the condemned man might read or write.",LJ007-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0202.wav,But the one great and most crying evil remained unremedied.,LJ007-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0203.wav,"The mischief of jail associations, say the inspectors,",LJ007-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0204.wav,"which has been demonstrably proved to be the fruitful source of all the abuses and irregularities which have so long disgraced Newgate,|which has been demonstrably proved to be the fruitful source of all the abuses and irregularities which have so long disgraced Newgate,",LJ007-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0205.wav,"is not only permitted still to exist in the prison, but is rendered more powerful than before.",LJ007-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0206.wav,"In endeavoring to arrest contamination, prisoners were more closely confined, and associated in smaller numbers;",LJ007-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0207.wav,"but this had the effect of throwing them into closer contact, and of making them more intimately acquainted with, more directly influential upon, one another.",LJ007-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0208.wav,"In the inspectors' fourth report, dated 1839,",LJ007-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0209.wav,"they return to the charge, and again call the corporation to task for their mismanagement of Newgate.",LJ007-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0210.wav,"Abuses and irregularities, which had been partially remedied by the reform introduced in 1837, were once more in the ascendant.",LJ007-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0211.wav,"In our late visits, they say, ""we have seen manifest indications of a retrograde movement in this respect,",LJ007-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0212.wav,"and a tendency to return to much of that laxity and remissness which formerly marked the management of this prison.""",LJ007-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0213.wav,Again the following year the inspectors repeat their charge.,LJ007-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0214.wav,The prominent evils of this prison (Newgate) -- evils which the alterations made within the last four years have failed to remove|The prominent evils of this prison (Newgate) -- evils which the alterations made within the last four years have failed to remove,LJ007-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0215.wav,"are the association of prisoners, and the unusual contamination to which such association gives rise.",LJ007-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0216.wav,"For nearly twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four the prisoners are locked up, during which time no officer is stationed in the ward with them.",LJ007-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0217.wav,They go on to say,LJ007-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0218.wav,Newgate is only less extensively injurious than formerly because it is less crowded.,LJ007-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0219.wav,"The effects of the imprisonment are to vitiate its inmates, to extend their acquaintanceship with each other,",LJ007-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0220.wav,"to corrupt the prisoner charged with an offense of which he may be innocent, and to confirm in guilt the young and inexperienced offender.",LJ007-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0221.wav,The reports as the years flow on reiterate the same complaints.,LJ007-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0222.wav,"Much bitterness of feeling is evidently engendered, and the corporation grows more and more angry with the inspectors.",LJ007-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0223.wav,"The prison officials appear to be on the side of the inspectors, to the great dissatisfaction of the corporation, who claimed the full allegiance and support of its servants.",LJ007-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0224.wav,"In a resolution passed by the Court of Aldermen on 18th March, 1842,",LJ007-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0225.wav,"I find it ordered ""that the ordinary of Newgate be restricted from making any communications to the Home Office",LJ007-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0226.wav,"or the Inspectors of Prisons, and that he be required wholly to confine himself to the performance of his duty as prescribed by Act of Parliament.",LJ007-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0227.wav,"The inspectors were not to be deterred, however, by any opposition from the earnest discharge of their functions, and continued to report against Newgate.",LJ007-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0228.wav,In their tenth report,LJ007-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0229.wav,"they state that they are compelled by an imperative sense of duty to advert in terms of decided condemnation to the lamentable condition of the prisons of the city of London,",LJ007-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0230.wav,"Newgate, Giltspur St. Compter, and the City Bridewell,",LJ007-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0231.wav,in which the master evil of jail association and consequent contamination still continues to operate directly to the encouragement of crime.,LJ007-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0232.wav,The plan adopted for ventilating the dining-room on the 'master's side' and that of the middle yard is very inefficient;,LJ007-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0233.wav,"it consists of several circular perforations, about two inches in diameter,",LJ007-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0234.wav,"slanting downwards from the top of the walls to the outside adjoining the slaughterhouses of Newgate market; and occasionally, in hot weather,",LJ007-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0235.wav,"instead of ventilating the apartments, they only serve to convey the offensive effluvia arising from the decaying animal matter into the dining-rooms.",LJ007-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0236.wav,Sometimes the stench in hot weather is said to be very bad.,LJ007-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0237.wav,"Many rats also come through these so-called ventilators, as they open close to the ground at the back of the prison.",LJ007-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0238.wav,"At the same time the inspectors animadvert strongly upon the misconduct of prisoners and the frequency of prison punishments,",LJ007-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0239.wav,both offenses and punishments affording a sufficient index to the practices going forward; and they wind up by declaring,LJ007-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0240.wav,"that a strict compliance with their duties gave them no choice ""but to report matters as we found them,",LJ007-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0241.wav,and again and again to protest against Newgate as it at present exists.,LJ007-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0242.wav,No complete and permanent improvement was indeed possible while Newgate remained unchanged.,LJ007-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ007-0243.wav,"It was not till the erection of the new prison at Holloway in 1850, and the entire internal reconstruction of Newgate according to new ideas,",LJ007-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 11: Executions, part one.",LJ008-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0002.wav,"I propose to return now to the subject of Newgate executions,",LJ008-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0003.wav,which we left at the time of the discontinuance of the long-practiced procession to Tyburn.,LJ008-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0004.wav,The reasons for this change were fully set forth in a previous chapter.,LJ008-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0005.wav,"The terrible spectacle was as demoralizing to the public, for whose admonition it was intended,",LJ008-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0006.wav,as the exposure was brutal and cruel towards the principal actors.,LJ008-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0007.wav,The decision to remove the scene of action to the immediate front of the jail itself,LJ008-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0008.wav,"was in the right direction, as making the performance shorter and diminishing the area of display.",LJ008-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0009.wav,But the Old Bailey was not exclusively used;,LJ008-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0010.wav,"at first, and for some few years after 1784, executions took place occasionally at a distance from Newgate.",LJ008-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0011.wav,This was partly due to the survival of the old notion that the scene of the crime ought also to witness the retribution;,LJ008-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0012.wav,partly perhaps because residents in and about the Old Bailey raised a loud protest against the constant erection of the scaffold in their neighborhood.,LJ008-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0013.wav,"As regards the first, I find that in 1786",LJ008-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0014.wav,"John Hogan, the murderer of a Mr. Odell, an attorney who resided in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place,",LJ008-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0015.wav,was executed on a gibbet in front of his victim's house.,LJ008-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0016.wav,"Lawrence Jones, a burglar, was in 1793 ordered for execution in Hatton Garden, near the house he had robbed;",LJ008-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0017.wav,"and when he evaded the sentence by suicide, his body was exhibited in the same neighborhood,",LJ008-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0018.wav,"extended upon a plank on the top of an open cart, in his clothes, and fettered.",LJ008-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0019.wav,"Again, as late as 1809 and 1812, Execution Dock, on the banks of the Thames, was still retained.",LJ008-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0020.wav,"Here John Sutherland, commander of the British armed transport 'The Friends,' suffered on the 29th June, 1809,",LJ008-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0021.wav,"for the murder of his cabin-boy, whom he stabbed after much ill-usage on board the ship as it lay in the Tagus.",LJ008-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0022.wav,"On the 18th December, 1812,",LJ008-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0023.wav,"two sailors, Charles Palm and Sam Tilling, were hanged at the same place for the murder of their captain, James Keith",LJ008-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0024.wav,"of the trading vessel 'Adventure,' upon the high seas.",LJ008-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0025.wav,"They were taken in a cart to the place of execution, amidst a vast concourse of people.",LJ008-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0026.wav,"Palm, as soon as he was seated in the cart,",LJ008-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0027.wav,"put a quid of tobacco into his mouth, and offered another to his companion, who refused it with indignation",LJ008-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0028.wav,"Some indications of pity were offered for the fate of Tilling; Palm, execration alone.",LJ008-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0029.wav,"But the Old Bailey gradually, and in spite of all objections urged, monopolized the dread business of execution.",LJ008-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0030.wav,"The first affair of the kind on this spot was on the 3rd December, 1783,",LJ008-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ008-0031.wav,"when, in pursuance of an order issued by the Recorder to the sheriffs of Middlesex and the keeper of His Majesty's jail, Newgate,",LJ008-0031.wav | |