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Show TREATMENT OP CONVICTS. One of the eurloua phenomena of the present day ta the agitation which la being conducted by life-term convict con-vict for the virtual abolition of life Imprisonment, by providing that those so sentenced shall be liberated after a fixed nutnbur of yeara of good conduct. There are doubtless some llfo prisoners who nro proper subjects of elcmiiticy, but there Is another class whoso members ennnot bo out of prison a week without committing crluia. Tho public safety demands more and not lens severity to htbltuat criminals, and there ta grave reason to doubt that the discretion of our prison ntitborltles In permitting and apparently assisting In this appeal to maudlin sentiment In favor of a gen-oral gen-oral Jail dullvory. San Krancisoo Chronicle. |