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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
“Model Prisons of their scoundrelism; shipping his scoundrels”
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. IV, The New Downing Street (15 April 1850) (Project Gutenberg #1140)
Among the new ministries of his imagined reformed state, Carlyle gives a Minister of Justice the task of emptying the model prisons and sending convicts abroad to labour under drill-sergeants on railways and in empty lands.
Citation: "Model Prisons of their scoundrelism; shipping his scoundrels" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. IV, The New Downing Street (15 April 1850) (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q1)
