Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Social and Political Ideas of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon 2. A Prophet in his Own County 3. Carnarvon and National Penal Policy 4. The Social and Political Ideas of Sir Edmund Du Cane 5. Nationalisation: the Flawed Prospectus 6. Enforcing Uniformity: Discipline, Labour and Instruction 7. Enforcing Uniformity: Health, Dietary and Discharge Arrangements 8. Enforcing Uniformity: Special Categories 9. New Tasks: Identification and Executions 10. The Justices React to Nationalisation: Individual Committees 11. The Committees Attempt to Organise 12. Triumph of the Clerks 13. The Call for a Prison Inquiry 14. Personalities and Preoccupations 15. Compounding Errors 16. Aftermath 17. The Final Act Bibliography Corrigenda, volume 1
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