Our Present Gaol System Deeply Depraving to the Prisoner And a Positive Evil to
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He requested to speak to me in private. * I wait,' said he, * the moment of execution ; and since you are the first person who has visited us, I wish to address you with confidence, and to conceal nothing from you. I am guilty of the crime for which I have been condemned ; I have committed robbery and murder. From my infancy my parents neglected me. I fell into bad company; my undoing was completed in a prison; and I am now about to expiate all my faults. 25 Among the persons whom you see in th...is rot>m there are some youths, who, with pain I ohserve, are preparing themselves for the commission of new crimes^ as soon as their term of confinement expires. If you would get them removed into a separate room, this, nr, would he the greatest henefit that you could confer upon them." The present is truly an "undoing" system; and every feeling mind will accord in the sentiments expressed hy the Inspectors of Prisons when referring to the operation of our present laws, and the deplorably depraving influence of our prison discipline upon the young : — ^"^ Absolute impunity would, in many cases, have been preferable to the ruinous effects of commitment to a gaol." In confirmation of the sentiments expressed with regard to the lamentable opportunities afforded by constructional arrangement for mutual contamination amongst the prisoners in the gaol to which re- ference has been made, the chaplain and the governor of the SaKord prison, in a report to the visiting justices, under date of April, 1845, thus observe :— " The day-rooms are severally on the ground floor communicating with the airing yard.
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