The idea of prison reform was promoted in the early 19th century by Elizabeth Fry and her brother Joseph John Gurney.
He was the brother of Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry, a reformer, and Louisa Gurney Hoare, a writer on education, and also the brother-in-law — through his sister Hannah — of Thomas Fowell Buxton, an anti-slavery campaigner.
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