Illiterate Inmates
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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 ...
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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 ...
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