Chapter V: THE PERIOD OF HARD LABOR--Routine--Talk with the

Chaplain--My Work in the Kitchen--The Machine-made
Menu--Visitors to the Kitchen--The “Homelike” Cell--The
Opiate of Acquiescence--Visits of Prisoners’ Friends--My
Mother’s Visits--A Letter from Lord Russell--Punished for
Another’s Fault--Forms of Punishment--The True Aim of
Punishment--The Evil of Collective Punishment--The Evil of
Constant Supervision--Some Good Points of Convict Prisons--My
Sickness--Taken to the Infirmary--The Utter Desolation of a
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