PRISON PARADOXES
NEW YORK, Ndv. 2. Air Lewis Lawes, the well-known Governor of Sing Sing Prison, New York, has just written a hook, entitled “Life and Death in Sing Sing.” “I have handled more than 10,000 so-called ‘had men,” At r Lawes writes, “and I have found an equal’ number of paradoxes and anomalies. The murderer, in most instances, proven to he tender-hearted; the robber, bold; the thief, honest.” The warden is required by law to live.at the prison, and the statute provides that Ills servants shall be prisoners. “The result is,” Air Lawes observes, “that 1 have had a cook who was a poisoner and been shaved by a prisoner wlro cut another man’s throat. Aly guests often turn their valuables over for safe keeping to men under sentence for robbery, larceny, or burglary. ’ ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 11
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135PRISON PARADOXES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 11
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