military engineer and the British Surveyor-General of convict prisons
Sir Joshua Jebb,KCB (8 May 1793 – 26 June 1863) was a British officer of the Royal Engineers who participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812,[2] He became Surveyor-General of convict prisons. By 1850, Pentonville Prison which he had designed had become a template for prison construction across the British Empire.[3][4] Michael Ignatieff described Pentonville as "the culmination of a history of efforts to devise a perfectly rational and reformative mode of imprisonment".[5]
Jebb was also involved in designing Woking Convict Invalid Prison, Broadmoor Hospital, a secure mental hospital in Crowthorne in Berkshire, and Mountjoy Prison in the centre of Dublin.
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^Carey, Hilary M. (14 March 2019). Empire of Hell. Cambridge University Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-1-107-04308-4.
^Ignatieff, Michael (1978). A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. Pantheon Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-394-41041-8.
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