Gustave de Beaumont Biography
Born February 6, 1802 (Beaumont-la-Chartre, France)
Died February 22, 1866 (Paris, France)
French magistrate, prison reformer
Gustave de Beaumont was a nineteenth-century French statesman when he received a commission from the King of France Louis Phillipe (1773–1850) to inspect American prison systems for the French government. In 1831 Beaumont and his friend and noted historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) sailed to the United States. They spent nine months inspecting American prisons. At the completion of their study, they published a report entitled On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.
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