or, if he has none, to give him a new start when he
leaves prison. Recent experience shows that the
great majority of prisoners can be trusted to work
outside the prison, at any ordinary labor, without
guards-returning to the prison each evening.[Footnote:
See Century, vol. 87, p. 746.] Regular hours, and wholesome
living in every way, are, of course, enforced; sports
are encouraged in leisure hours, and physical development
ensured. Educational influences are brought to
bear, through class-instruction, books, sermons, private
talks. The individual’s mind is studied
and every effort made to supplant morbid and anti-social
by normal and moral ideas. Few criminals but
are amenable to skillful guidance; most of them, could,
if pains were taken, be transformed into useful citizens.
All this application of modern penological ideas means
a greatly increased expense per capita; but this will
be largely offset by the work required of all healthy
prisoners, and in any case is the best sort of an investment.
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