211 haves himself, he is treated with more forbearance and kindness than is re ceived by hundreds of working girls who sizzle and .melt in our city factor ies. Truly, prisons in these days are “ soft snaps” where prosperous crooks acci dentally trapped in the legal net may enjoy a vacation and take rest for an overworked body and brain heretofore employed in outwitting others. Lest some one think that this is a joke, I hasten to say that I served six (6) months in a Jail, and seventeen (17) months in a prison and ought to know my facts. Every word recorded here is sober truth with not one detail exaggerated. If my readers imagine, however, that this uplift program has materially af fected the majority of prisoners for good, he is seriously, sadly mistaken. The whole thing is a ghastly failure, and it is higlj time that the American people listen less gullibly to glib pris on reformers and take counsel with the truth. I am not an enemy to sane prison re form. The brutality of the old system was a crime against man— a crime a- gainst the manhood of the man who ex ecuted it as well as against that of the victim. But, when I protest against a man beating his children with a club without cause, I do not intend that he shall swing to the other extreme and let them do as they please. Either ex treme will damn the children. The golden mean between, is firm, sane discipline that shall be neither brutal nor "soft,” for if it is either it does not deserve the name of discipline. The crying need of prisons the nation over is discipline— the real thing— ad ministered by trained men, men fitted by experience for such a task, and not mere politicians appointed to pay a campaign debt. Three things indicate the failure:
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