Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England

by crone and Rosalind Crone

The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schemes to teach prisoners to read and write, and sometimes more besides, can be traced to the early 1800s. State-funded elementary education for prisoners pre-dated universal and compulsory education for children by fifty years. In the 1860s, when the famous maxim, just cited, became the basis of national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198833830
• ISBN13: 9780198833833
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"