| Description Of Item | A press cutting from The Scotsman about the opening address at a meeting of The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, delivered by Lord Neaves (Charles Neaves). He discussed the importance of punishment and reform for prisoners, and different types of penal punishment. The speech was followed with comments from Lord Brougham (Henry Peter Brougham), who praised Walter Crofton’s design of the Irish prison system. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |