they would have found no means in
the room for escaping. Or had any professed goodness, or pretended to a
great desire for education with the hope of being taken to the chapel
under circumstances favorable to their getting away, they would have
found it of no avail. Good or bad, professedly reformed or not, all were
treated alike in this respect. And, so far as I had the opportunity of
observation, the same strictness was observed in all other departments
of the prison.

True, one escaped, but from no lack of internal watchfulness or order.
His time had almost expired, he having been a faithful, obedient,
well-disposed prisoner. The warden set him at work doing chores about
the stable and outer yard, not supposing that he would leave for so
short a period, and thereby forfeit his commutation and render himself
liable to be returned at any time through life. But after serving here a
few days he absconded.

9. _Chaplain's routine of duty._ In this were embraced, not only the
Sabbath morning service and the Sabbath school care, but also visiting
the cells for giving words of advice, visiting the hospital for
imparting religious consolation, managing the secular school, changing
the library books for the inmates, Saturdays, learning, from the
prisoners, enough of their past history to enable him to judge of the
instruction adapted to each, and, in fine, to speak such words here and
there as would conduce to the requisite order. This gave a wide range,
an important field. I seemed to have returned to my school keeping days;
and found my long habit of reading human nature in students of no little
use, aiding me to understand the best manner of approaching each so as
to gain his confidence. Also my custom in school discipline, which had
at times been complained of as being too strict, now served an excellent
purpose, prompting me, at every step, to move in decided contrariety to
all irregularity and disorder.

10. _General description of the prison and prison management._ The old
part of the prison was erected in 1812, favored by Mason, Woodbury and
other distinguished men of that day, the avowed purpose being to have an
institution where the criminals of the State could be gathered and put
under reformatory influences. Thus it appears that the idea of reform
was a fundamental one in the founding of the establishment. Some years
since the north wing, for the male prisoners, was erected, which is
three-storied a