Scottish Prisons

An anecdote illustrative of the condition of Scottish prisons long ago was given by Lord Cockburn in his famed
“Journal:”

” We have had good specimens of the present condition of some prisons. One man was tried at Inver ness for prison-breaking, and his defence was that he was ill-fed, and that the prison was so weak that he had sent a
message to the jailer that if he did not get more meat he would not stay another hour, and so he left.”

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