PRISON DISCIPLINE.
[From the " Australasian.''
The last English mail furnishes an amusing lesson in the art of prison discipline. The Governor of the Gaol at Deven - port, on discharging a prisoner some time ago, complimented the man upon his industry in having earned while in gaol not only a sum much more than the cost of his maintenance, but also a substantial contribution to the Governor's salary. The compliment was not altogether appreciated. Never was a man more disgusted with himself than the industrious prisoner. " Have I," he exclaimed, ; ' earned so much towards your salary .' Then you will never see me here again." It is well known that the pickpockets and other professional thieves in London not unfrequently exercise airs of patronage towards the police, and remind them that it is to themselves and their companions that the blue-coated fraternity owe their billets. If there were no thieves, there would he no police. But then the pickpockets never understood this arrangement to mean that thoy were not only to find the police in billets, but also to pay the salaries of these billets out of their own pockts.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 38, 5 June 1876, Page 2
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