Excerpt from View of the Prison Palace, Called Reading County Gaol, for the Board, Education, and Maintenance of Convicted Criminals, at the Public Expense: Extracted From Mr. Charles Pearson's First Letter to the Electors of Lambeth The House of Commons has been recently deluged with statistical and other statements, to show the enormous increase of crime in this country. Although the increase in the number of commitments and convictions (600 per cent.) during the last 40 years does not afford a true standard of the actual increase of crime; yet, after making all proper deductions on account of circumstances affecting rather the apparent than the real increase, the residue shows a most alarming augmentation, and particularly amongst that class which has acquired an nu happy notoriety under the title of Juvenile offenders, a class which almost all persons concur in considering rather as objects of compassion than punishment, if any other than penal measures could be devised to check their increasing. Numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.