English prison reformer who documented inhumane prison conditions in his 1777 work The State of the Prisons, advocating single celling, sanitation and rehabilitation, work that founded the modern prison reform movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDocumented inhumane prison conditions and advocated systematic reform, founding the modern prison reform movement. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe State of the Prisons (1777) 1 RoleSourced to the subject's own account Connections
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was an English philanthropist
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an early prison reformer
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Howard documented his experiences in the 1777 expose The State of the Prisons which described the terrible conditions of these prisons in great detail.
In Group: Prison Reformers and Administrators of Britain and Ireland, Lead sentence
John Howard FRS (2 September 1726-20 January 1790) was an English philanthropist known for his work as an early prison reformer.
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