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Image of Separate or Model Prison
Author Ian Brand
Binding Paperback
Edition Standard
Publisher Regal Publications
Release Date 01 Jan 1990
Price
$15.00
Weight 0.169kg
ISBN 9780949457332

Governor Brown wrote in 1867, "Detention in the Separate Prison cannot be maintained beyond a year and a half at the utmost without serious injury to the health ...". It was acknowledged by the authorities in Van Diemen's Land as the ideal method of restraining the most "incorrigible and insubordinate" convicts..