In the excerpt given from the “Debtor’s Prisons”, the author, Samuel Johnson is very unhappy with how prisons are being used to convict people unable to pay their debts. Samuel Johnson does not believe so many people should be thrown in jail so lackluster. He states that the men in the prison are “groaning in unnecessary misery” and are “pitied for a moment… and then forgotten.” Not only does he believe these people shouldn’t be imprisoned, he also believes that there is not enough enough awareness of what is happening to these men.
Samuel Johnson says “more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt” and he later says that many of these men are “groaning in unnecessary misery” proclaiming that ther are innocent and should not be imprisoned. Johnson did an excellent job of using monetary and comparative values to show the true effect of what was happening. …show more content…
This was of course, something he did not agree with. He claims that statistically taking these men from their homes leaves 1 out of every 100 people miserable and possibly starving.
In the excerpt Samuel Johnson used statistics to show the large effects the imprisonment of debtors had on his homeland, England. 5,000 debtors would perish in prison due to sorrow, famine, excessive filth in the prisons, many of the men who died were youthful and in their earlier, more prosperous years of life, rotting away and dying in prison. According to that, Samuel says, “one in thirty dies every year, the race of men may be said to be renewed at the end of thirty years” Specifying that his people are not only unfairly treated but are wasting their lives in
Samuel Johnson says “more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt” and he later says that many of these men are “groaning in unnecessary misery” proclaiming that ther are innocent and should not be imprisoned. Johnson did an excellent job of using monetary and comparative values to show the true effect of what was happening. …show more content…
This was of course, something he did not agree with. He claims that statistically taking these men from their homes leaves 1 out of every 100 people miserable and possibly starving.
In the excerpt Samuel Johnson used statistics to show the large effects the imprisonment of debtors had on his homeland, England. 5,000 debtors would perish in prison due to sorrow, famine, excessive filth in the prisons, many of the men who died were youthful and in their earlier, more prosperous years of life, rotting away and dying in prison. According to that, Samuel says, “one in thirty dies every year, the race of men may be said to be renewed at the end of thirty years” Specifying that his people are not only unfairly treated but are wasting their lives in