Joshua Jebb
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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]
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Joshua Jebb | |
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Born | 8 May 1793[1] Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England |
Died | 26 June 1863(1863-06-26) (aged 70)[1] |
Occupation(s) | military engineer and the British Surveyor-General of convict prisons |
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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.