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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17608, 10 November 1922, Page 17

In the State prison of Wisconsin any prisoner who chooses to devote his evenings to study can take courses prepared by the university of the State. All day the prisoners are occupied in making twine. Then they have three hours' leisure before "lights out." During those hours 84 men are working harder than the university students. Some are learning law, some engineering, some take a business course of bookkeeping and methods of commerce. They aro all animated by the desire to make a fresh start when they are free again, to wipe off their bad record by becoming useful citizens. That they are becoming more humane and sensible, an incident at Cardiff shows. A man serving a sentence there was let out to say good-bye to his dying wife, and to attend her funeral. A clergyman and Salvationist undertook to be responsible for his. returning to gaol after the funeral, which he promptly did.