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or woman who cannot even while shut up in
prison earn his or her daily bread if given the
choice between eating or not eating. We were
constantly told that the majority of the prison
population was made up from weak-minded,
unintelligent, more or less irresponsible
individuals. This was a mistake. Their standard
of intelligence was as a rule not below but above
the average. All first offenders should be
condemned to a much shorter term of imprisonment
on a very low diet combined with repeated and
severe corporal punishments. They should make
room for the fathers of abandoned and illegitimate
children, and for the souteneurs now at large in
our midst. Cruelty to helpless animals was to
the eyes of God a far greater sin than
housebreaking, it was only punished by a small fine.
We all knew that excessive accumulation of
wealth was, as often as not, a cleverly concealed
theft from the poor. I had never come across a
millionaire in prison. The trick of making money
out of almost anything was a special gift of very
doubtful moral value. The possessors of this
faculty should only be tolerated to carry on, on
the understanding that, as with the bees, a large
slice of their golden combs should be distributed
among those who have no honey to put on their
daily bread.
As to the rest of the prison population, the
inveterate criminals, the cold-blooded murderers
etc. instead of spending a lifetime in relative
comfort at a rate of expense exceeding the price
of a permanent bed in a hospital, they should be
given a painless death, not as punishment, for we
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