ENGLISH PRISONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14275, 16 August 1910, Page 6

ENGLISH PRISONS.

ARE TOO CO.MEO.UTABLE. Vri.sou discipline saws the London '•'ilines/' cannot be said as a whole to err on the .side of over-harshness. In t!ie treatment ot adult- criminals ot every class the limits of comfort ami indulgence have been reached. it is even questionable to many capable judges whether the authorities have- not. gone too far. 'The same thought iias .-truck the prisoners tnemsetves. The lolloping ell'usiou is taken lrom nianv others written in the same strain : it is the genome composition of a criminal ami was lomul on the slate wlich all prisoners have for writing or drawing upon, and di-fovered by chance. |Jny> g';-al as it is, it is woi'tiiy of note bv a humanitarian public:— 1 cannot take my walks abroad, I'm under lock and key, And much the public 1 applaud Eor their kind care of me. Not more than others I deserve In fact much less than more, let I have hread whilst others starve And heg irom door to tloor. The honest paupers in the street llaii-uak-.d i behold, \wule 1 am clad from head to foot. And covered from the cold. Whilst they are fed on workhouse fare -■nd grudged their scanty food, three, times a day my meals I "et .Milncient, wholesome, good. = Then to the Ilritish I'ublic-"Health!" Wfio all our care relieves And while they treat us as'they do -IHey 11 never want for thieves.