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Show A VERY jJOLLl An Island Where the Pris Freely in Society Wi Tree People, A BEAVE HERO OF Tl A Miser Who Left a Princ bnt Who Lived in Abject An Old Traveler, A corresponaent writing gives some interesting details went of prisoners on variom ands he visited while on a Mediterranean. Each of tl contains several hundred pri are locked up every night at leased at daybreak and lock; from midday until 2 o'clock, night no prisoner is allowed under any circumstances, bu those who work on farms at from the prison are allowed out by special permission rector. During these free hw oners can go anywhere thev island and can engage in offered them by the townspeoi ere. Any infraction of the n nary life around them, or of tl j is punished by seclusion in sp; I The government furnishes I and medicines, a summer a ' suit of clothes to each pri: j year, and allows each ten cen money for his food and other of life. Danger of escape is by a squad of soldiers, one to criminals, and a swift sailin manned by marines. On acco cheapness of labor the islan highly cultivated as toresemtl The correspondent adds: "j prisoners, the open air makes healthiest of any criminals I seen. There is no sign in theii bodies of that prison blight h every visitor to ordinary jaifc tentiaries. 'Fresh, open country air, se; and contact with honest mei and children, among whom th nab must live and behave i properly, remind them that th; simply jail birds, but that, gi feeling of humanity, society all to hang on to its skirts withe casting' them out. The loots prisoners were so different frcj any I had ever seen before that tion forced itself on me whethe ter moralizer and redeemer of can be found than this fresh, o try air and its concomitants," 7 While this picture seems somi idyllic to be reproduced in fto -ii is a very interesting and enc one, and contains suggestions o most value in the solution of thi problem of the extent to which tory discipline shall supersede ac ishment in the future treatment inals. New York Commercial tiser. |
