Glance at the present state of the common gaols of Canada, &c., &c., &c. : a paper read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 6th April, 1864.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There are in every county in England large public schools, maintained at the expense of the county, for the encouragement of profligacy and vice, and for providing a proper succession of housebreakers, profligates, and thieves.They are schools, too, conducted without the smallest degree of partiality or favour, there being no man (however mean his birth or obscure his situation) who may not easily procure admission to them.The moment any young person evinces the slightest propensity for these pursuits, he is provided with food, clothing and lodging, and put to his studies under the most accomplished thieves and cut throats the country can supply.There is not, to be sure, a formal arrangement of lectures, after the manner of our Universities ; but the petty larcenous stripling, being left destitute of every species of employment, and locked up with accomplished villains, as idle as himself, listens to their pleasant narrative of successful crimes, and pants for the hour of freedom, that he may begin the same bold and interesting career."This is the picture drawn by the late Sydney Smith of the pri- sons of England, a little more than forty years ago -a perfectly true picture, he tells us, of the prisons of many counties in England at that time.Happily, a great revolution has since then been effected in prison discipline in England, and if there is still much room for improvement in her prison system, yet there are few, if any, prisons in that country to which the preceding description would now be applicable.To bring about that much-needed reform, few, per- haps, contributed more than the famous Canon of St. Paul's, whose strong good sense, caustic humour, and trenchant logic were never employed with more effect or more hearty good will than in laying bare the social abuses of his time. And if the prison discipline ofEngland is to attain a still higher degree of excellence, it will pro- bably be by following out and developing the admirable practical suggestions contained in the essays on prisons written by Sydney Smith more than forty years ago.It is a very strong argument to my mind, in favor of the views
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".