TY - BOOK ID - 149865716 TI - Children in prison : and other cruelties of prison life PY - 2013 SN - 1776526651 PB - [Auckland, NZ] : The Floating Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prisons KW - Law and legislation KW - Reading Prison (Reading, England) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149865716 AB - While Oscar Wilde is now strongly associated with the tone of whimsy that imbues his breezy, effortlessly witty epigrams and essays, the Irish writer and playwright was also a serious thinker who, having been sentenced to two years of hard labor as a punishment for his homosexuality, was deeply engaged with the social issues of his day. This essay, penned as a letter to a newspaper soon after Wilde's release from prison, takes up the moral issue of penal sentences for juveniles... ER -