PRISON LABOR.
To the Editor. Sxr, —However necessary it may be to punish those who err against society (and pity knows some few short years back justice was very little tempered with mercy, and the slightest and may be first offence brought down the severest penalty of the law), 0 !! am sure the authorities have no wish that this punishment should in any way take the form of cruelty. Such were mv reflections as while walking along the Leith this morning I observed some prisoners Working in drenching rain. 4s no one knows better than the writer the difficulty at times experienced m obtaining a change of clothes m Dunedin Gaol, I feel certain that, however anxious the public may be for improvements, there is not one who would wish to see them earned out at the risk of health to these unfortunates. I am, &c., Humanitas, Dunedin, April I*2, 1872.
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Evening Star, Issue 2854, 12 April 1872, Page 3
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151PRISON LABOR. Evening Star, Issue 2854, 12 April 1872, Page 3
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