| Show I. I r c Z i. h i f fi k if I IThe The Tho Pleasures of Prison Prison Life Hero is a very suggestive passage t taken from WillUm P. P Andrews Andrew's arti art eta ele en n the of by bV Reformatory Re Ite- te- te Prisons in th the October Forum Several times tho the prisoners havo have complained to the tho writer that tho the of officers ot- ot Seers havo have made a n. mistake in copying copying copy copy- ing their and not given them time enough Hero Here is a complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint of this character last made to him I 1 have hare got but tw two months and I am entitled to four Please have it altered for me I 1 want all four tour months that I was sentenced for for Again meeting in JI n a county pr prison on a n. physician sentenced for two years for writer was Vas astonished with the tho c conversation The prisoner was a man who had been noted for his enjoyment of tho the luxuries of ex cx- stence lIe He said It is a great reat mistake mistake mis mis- take you fellows make iu in thinking you are aro Inflicting punishment when you send men here I have b been en here a a. year and can fully say I have enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed en en- joyed it so BO much that I shall not feel fedl sorry if it my pardon is Js not obtained lou ou see it has been vacation with with- just enough to do to amuse me me- meThe The Tho novels In the tho prison library ry are aro entertaining en en- and und I 1 I am very vety fond of dominoes and checkers and find some first rate players among the men Now if it strikes 8 me in this way who ha have va been accustomed to every luxury luxury lux lux- ury how must it bo be to the poor devils who never have a n square meal outside out out- outside side Do you Oli won wonder er that they flock by hundreds and thousands to tho the jails in winter My only surprise is s that you can keep any of them out at all nIl This is the an educated educated educated edu edu- man who has experienced the benefits of the tho system in his own per person per par and finds them eon son a a alife life from which he ho is ls loath to part But Dut it is it evident that it is far from the austerity and severity which once did pervade the tho prison place and It will bo be hard from this to realize this tha good mans man's desire of Impressing the tho prisoner with the tho idea way of the transgressor is F |
