That summer, when Pintard and his fellow-inmates celebrated the Fourth of July, they toasted the United States: "May its next revolution no longer find imprisonment for debt & personal slavery, solecisms, in the chapter of American rights & privileges".
His politically motivated incarceration was followed by a much longer period of imprisonment in 1938, from which he was freed only in 1951.
The 18-week sentence imposed on Peter Nunn, 33, from Bristol, on Monday is one of the longer terms of imprisonment handed to anyone in England for posting menacing messages on social media.
One of the three judges on the panel, Patrick Robinson, also found the sentence too light, saying in a dissent that the crimes to which Mr. Banovic had confessed warranted "a longer term of imprisonment".
The assumption is often that longer periods of imprisonment are potentially more harmful for young children, as in theory they are more likely to lead to disrupted attachment.
It will mean months or longer of wrongful imprisonment for Wrice and lead to certain defeat at the hands of Judge Clay.
As such the ability to generalise our findings to the wider prisoner population in Western Australia, and in particular to prisoners admitted prior to 2006 and those with longer terms of imprisonment, is likely to be limited.
For all its many problems, modern imprisonment no longer implies the medieval notion of "civil death".
Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University and an expert on sentencing, said the rise in monetary damages might curb "a troublesome modern tendency of many legislators and judges to respond to all perceived crime problems with longer and longer terms of imprisonment".
