Show TREATMENT OF PRISONERS RS A I French rench officer high in iii the management nt of 1 French prisons h has lis s recently been making making V alL an extended extended extended ex ex- ex- ex tended examination of American merican prisons He thinks the system system- in this country is admirable but butis butis butis is astounded at the comforts and luxuries supplied prisoners in this country and believes that to that is due the return of so i any after serving one term They go out ont into the world free but u the brand of their former crime is upon them they find it always in the way and then many of those people owed their first fall fal to the fact that they were trying to live lve without doing honest work work S So after breathing free air for a few days s seeing the tiie necessity o of work if they would live their pride and resolution resolution broken by br the taint they have b brought upon their names names- and remembering the the- prison supplied them then with food cl clothing thing shelter sheler and comfortable beds give up and commit another another another an an- other crime solely for the purpose of getting back t to te their old quarters We Ve suspect that is and and yet we would not have the barbarities of for- for prisons introduced into the United States but we ve would have every man worked full ful eight hours a day clay would pay him a low low vage wage and hold it for him his release then give it to him hini and bid him l seek some distant state and begin life anew What hat would b better would be a penal V colony but this we suspect is at present impossible |