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Show NGLISH CRIMINALS GIVEN RATHER HARSH TREATMENT i ment tire listened to, but that's about all. Food given to prisoners is no more sufficient to stay the pangs of hunger. It is not the most nppetiz-in nppetiz-in the w-orld. Vegetable soup forms a large part of the menu, as also does porridge unsweetened. Itoast meat is a luxury seldom dispensed. Green vegetables rarely find thei.-v. thei.-v. ay to the prisomis.' platen Dry bri ad is given in comparatively lib-tr.'il lib-tr.'il quantities to till up. Weal;, unsweetened un-sweetened tea, 'Lflee und cocoa is the daily beverage. Drastic Trea'ment Prisoners occasionally sham illness ill-ness to avoid uncongenial tasks. Their treatment is drastic. Wbcu it is absolutely established that a prisoner is sick diet. For breakfast a bowl of weak tea two slices of dry bread and salt. Dinner consists of coffee, dry bread and what is known in prison parlance ns "shadow "sha-dow soup". This consists of a bowl of hot water into which u spoonful of melted fat Is added no more than sufficient to give the water n greasy appearance. The. evening meal is precisely the same as breakfast, break-fast, except that cocoa is substituted substi-tuted for tea. Generally four days of this treatment is sufficient to have the prisoner begging to return re-turn to work, no matter of what description. Xevertbless . he is kept on "sick diet" for ten days. Prison officials stale that this is uu infallible in-fallible cure for laziness. Prisoners witli the most evil of reputations rarely If ever desire the dose repeated. re-peated. State boardiug Is no pleasure pleas-ure in Britain. i ( Fifteen times as many persons ' probnbly will be murdeied in I Now York City this fai than ill suffer similar fate iu all of England. During Ihe twelve months end-Itie end-Itie in November, 1112(1, there R'cre 22 murders committed iu finglnad. During the calendar nr of 11125, there were 33S in-tiinces in-tiinces of murder or umnslaugh-or umnslaugh-or la .New York City. Many factors' enter into the Trillion of (ills contrast. Some hllhoritios believe that. British irlsiui methods, harsh, unrelent-:'ii unrelent-:'ii null soinetlmes cruel present l compelling deterrent to the 'aimil murderer who is one if the greatest problems of met-"l"'lit.in met-"l"'lit.in police officers iu Ihe 'niteil Slates. LONDON (FP). Hardened crim-s crim-s la Britain are not pampered. 1 he.v receive sentences commen-fnti; commen-fnti; with the crime committed. If annuls of crime iu Britain sel-m sel-m record a miscarriage of juste jus-te nud from the lime they are fen ti number instead of a nume ! innile known to (hem in divers vs Unit they have sinned agaiusl Mi'ly anil have been sent to penal ilulilislnnenls for punishment. In Ihe ense of first offenders giv-n giv-n l"ng sentence methods are adopt-1 adopt-1 aiming at. reformation of char-Ni'r, char-Ni'r, but should any one of them M himself again behind bars he treated as an "old lag" and his Ijs until he regains his freedom oue of severe discipline und II. Ticiuls Not Corrupt British prison officials are hard-tared hard-tared men; ruthless when neces-r.v neces-r.v and seldom if ever corrupt, leir remuneration is not high but isouers attempting IdibiVy are dder nnd wiser men alter (lie stit. Corrupt officials are not im-wu im-wu lu British prisons, but they rare. Only one official has been own to accept "money for favors" the past five years. He was 'en n prison sentence. Sailers are especially sought for prison warders. Husky, raw-led raw-led naval men abound as officials British prisons. For "treating u rough and making 'em like if better tyo is known. Discipline permeated lo their very bones, dag to their service in the navy. A British prison warden is hneU-inp hneU-inp by the governor of the prison. "'Wiling to a high police official. 'Uplaiuta by prisoners of Ul-treat- |