John Howard FRS was an English philanthropist known for his work as an early prison reformer.
John Howard (1789) by Mather Brown
Statue of John Howard, Bedford
Headstone of John Howard
Memorial by John Haviland in Kherson.
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Single-celling is the practice of assigning only one inmate to each cell in a prison.
John Howard (prison reformer)
…and co-drafted the Penitentiary Act 1779 which introduced the first policy for state-run prisons in the United Kingdom. Howard pioneered the concept of single-celling and advocated for better cleanliness in prisons, solitary confinement, hard labour, access to religious instruction, salaried prison staff, and a greater…
A prison cell designed for a single inmate