Social Wreckage a Review of the Laws of England As They Affect the Poor
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By these men they are initiated into all the tricks and dodges by which, during their incarce- ration, they can evade the prison discipline or elude work, and at the end of it can enrol themselves in the great army of pro- fessional thieves. They enter prison mere tyros in crime, and by the fostering care of the Government they may, upon their discharge, be safely pronounced thoroughly qualified for the career of habitual criminals. This association extends to every portion of their prison life.... During school, the young man bred in the city, the ignorant countryman, the novice in wrong-doing, sit shoulder to shoulder with old and abandoned criminals, who have Crime and its Punishment. 165 not the most remote intention to learn, but who attend school as an excuse to get out of their cells, and for a change of scene. While pretending to be mumbling their lessons, they are engaged in ribald chat, in disgust- ing conversation with their neighbours; or else, if they are silent, are making, filthy and licentious drawings on their slates.
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