GAOL EXPERIENCES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 246, 14 March 1888, Page 7

GAOL EXPERIENCES.

John Most, tho Anarchist, who is well qualified by experience to give an opinion ns fco prison Jife, complains that American prisons are much less comfortable than those of European countries. His first imprisonment was in Austiia, where he wiih treated with great defeionce, had a largo room and was not required to work. In Germany, where he was twice imprisoned, he found tho accommodation not quite as good ap in Austria ; but he seems on tho wholo to have been comfortably lodged. In England ho bought hospitality in Clci Iteinvall prison, where, however, ho was obliged to work — his occupation being the ironing of shirts and tho picking of oakum. in America ho wase\cn woieo treated than in England. In the prihon on Blajkwcll'b Inland his room was only half as largo as that he occupied in Clcrkcnwell prison, and lie was actually called upon to do blacksmith's woik. So uusatWaotory, indeed, were tho arrangements of the i;aol he honomed by his presence, that on emerging trom it ho gaMi vent to his ui^gn«t in a book entitled, " Roll on Blackwell'b Island." It is n curious fact that the moic freo the country Most has been in, the moro disagree ablo havo been its gaols. Pleasant imprisonment is not, as a rule, to be enjoyed in a land of liberty.