By Rebecca M. McLennan
John Phillip Reid publication Award, American Society for felony historical past (2009)
Cromwell publication Prize in American felony heritage (2009):
"McLennan sheds new mild at the background of prisons and punishments from the early republic during the innovative period via concentrating on convict hard work. She brings into sharp concentration the complicated and altering courting among punishment, paintings, politics, and economics. The tensions among the conflicting ambitions of self-discipline, penitence, and revenue provoked clashes among criminal directors, penal reformers, and inmates. McLennan effectively moves a stability many historians search yet few in attaining among granting company to people who lack entry to standard types of energy and settling on the very actual limits of that organization. Even after innovative period reforms abolished prisoners' involuntary servitude and changed it with an incentivized process of behavioral rewards and punishments, the penal process nonetheless sought to benefit from the unfree whereas getting ready them for freedom. McLennan's 'crisis of imprisonment' persists."
Littleton-Griswold Prize in American legislation and Society, American ancient organization (2008):
"This designated research of prisons, punishment, and convict exertions essentially reshapes our knowing of the heritage of penology. targeting an in-depth research of recent York country prisons, McLennan lines the increase and fall of agreement felony exertions, drawing the connections among this brutal procedure and the bigger political financial context with nice theoretical sophistication."
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1749) quoted in Atkinson, “The Free-born Englishman Transported,” 101. 49 In both colonies, convict servants lost their customary right to freedom dues. 50 Most of these new laws applied to a second kind of convict servant found in the colonies. ”52 The Maryland assembly, for example, abolished the penalty of execution for most property crimes and substituted fines and corporal chastisements in 1681; when, subsequent to this reform, the courts discovered that offenders did not always have the means with which to pay their fines, magistrates began ordering such offenders sold into servitude, as a means of executing the fine.
Richmond, 1918–19), ii, 1034–5 (11 Apr. 1749) quoted in Atkinson, “The Free-born Englishman Transported,” 101. 49 In both colonies, convict servants lost their customary right to freedom dues. 50 Most of these new laws applied to a second kind of convict servant found in the colonies. ”52 The Maryland assembly, for example, abolished the penalty of execution for most property crimes and substituted fines and corporal chastisements in 1681; when, subsequent to this reform, the courts discovered that offenders did not always have the means with which to pay their fines, magistrates began ordering such offenders sold into servitude, as a means of executing the fine.
LL. N◦ 4. fol. , 1715, §1–2 (reprinted in Bacon’s Laws of Maryland, 1765, Vol. 75, Ch. 26, 220). A person convicted of a crime of larceny involving goods worth under one thousand dollars was ordered to repay the “Party grieved” to the four-fold value of goods stolen: If unable to do so, that “Person or Persons shall receive the corporal Punishment . . and satisfy the Four-fold, and Fees of Conviction, by Servitude,” either to the aggrieved party or to a third party who effectively purchased the convict’s service by paying the restitution and conviction fees on the spot.
