tors--Want of Periodical Hospital Inspection 44
6.--I Petition the Home Secretary--Doctor pronounces me
"Quite Well"--"Schemers," their Treatment and Fate--Death-Bed
Scenes 55
7.--Thiefology--What the uninitiated Convict may Learn in Prison 65
8.--Another Companion--A Career of Crime--His Opinions about
Religion and Church Rates--An Incurable: His Opinion about
Flogging 79
9.--Another Prisoner--Happy as a King--Cure of a Doctor--The
Tobacco and Food Exchange--Another Jail Bird--Civil and
Lazy--Undeserved Remission--Prison Directors, and How they
Discharge their Duties--I Petition to Go Abroad on "Insufficient
Grounds" 93
10.--The Prison--Daily Routine--Readings in Prison--Quarrels among
the Prisoners--Protestants _versus_ Catholics--School--Sundays
in Prison--"Sacrament Blokes"--Turning Point in Prisoners'
Career 107
11.--Indiscriminate Association of Prisoners--Transportation, and
the Cause of its Failure--A Gunsmith 119
12.--How Rebels against Society are made--I am Removed to a
Small Room, amongst Murderers--The "Highflyer" again--How a
Young Gentleman was made a Warning to Others 131
13.--The Act of 1864--Classification of Prisoners--The Mark System:
Its Defects--The True Criminal Law of Restitution--The
only Method by which Confirmed Criminals may be
Reclaimed--Workhouses 144
14.--The New Arrangements as to Remissions--Artificial Legs--Another
Interview with the Visiting Director--Compose Verses--Hospital
once more--Fenians--Prisoners' Letters 158
15.--A very bad Case--A self-taught Artist--A Clergyman also a
Convict--The Clergyman is taught Tailoring--How we Punish
Violation of the Seventh Commandment and the Eighth 169
16.--Quackery--Food--A Chatham Prisoner eats Snails and
Frogs--Sir Joshua Jebb's System and its Defects 181
17.--A new Governor--Bread-and-Water Jack--Severe
Punishments--Directors again--A Herb Doctor--Extraordinary
Story 193
18.--In Prison again--I see the Pri
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