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History & The Arts
Exploring the history of prisoner education
...axe propped behind them. Leather straps hang from the hooks on the side walls. On the right: This is a photograph of a printed rule book, identified as the ‘Rules for the Governance of the Gaol and House of Correction for the County of Durham’.] Figure 15 While chaplains strove to reform criminals through encouraging them to memorise Biblical passages, prisons...