| Description Of Item | Newspaper cutting on a proposed inquiry into prison dietary and treatment, from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Details how the Howard Association thinks prisoners ‘should be so treated as to be discharged in a physical, and, if possible, moral condition for obtaining an honest livelihood’. Notes how prison gruel has been discontinued from Irish Jails, ‘its nutritive value being next to nothing’. Details the necessity for an inquiry into prison management. |