New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-26
NJ JAM
The Treatment Of Criminals.

Correspondence al 1 nc ipuht.
STATE Prison. Thomason, Ne, Junc Is
The inside of a Prison The world IN
general is greatly mistaken upon a great variety
Of subjects, Most people mnocen'ly suppose
that the community Is wnn0wed of Ms greatest
.camps and renegades, and hat the Stale Prison
holds them. Thus. here IN the State OF Name
it IS believed that all the great rascals are to be-
found inside the walls of certain high fence m
Thomastca Never was a greater fallacy
small proportion Of tie big villains are here. and
If those who are, large majority are no worse
than the average of men outside. We know
number of very great raScals, whom nobody ever
thought Of sending TO the State Prison
The Devil himself never got there, and the rca-
son j. the same i'm each case he and they 60
round the world with their tails tucked up
and of those who are there. very many OF them
are INST hike the man whom we meet ana hold
intercourse with every day in the street They
have fallen before sudden temptation, from the
indulgence of unguaIded passion, from the stlm-
ulouS of peUcrse nature, that Just urged them
over the bounds that thousands daily rush up TO.
the accidents Of birth, stupid moral and mental
sense. evil communication, and iIOm thousand
circumstances that would have been equally
fatal To a large ma onty OF mankind. Yet, IA the
main. society would put Its heel upon these We
TINS and crush them as the very ylpers OF the
race OF the one hundred convIctS ~ the Maine
Prison there are half dozen real devils There
are also q few others who have an mcOruglDie
proclyijy 10 oheH>es that DO not argue malice OF
wlCkCdncSS u heart, but which society cannot
submit TO and ought not 10 endure They are the
sinewy, slippery. puson-breaking, thlevish, mis-
Ch.et-lCVlng TCgueS, whom no circumstances
would axe materially different from what they
are. one can hardly comWlsserate their con
Giton, for they seem 90 take positive delight IN
mischief and their punishment Is but the ma
tural consequence OF their perverSe en0yments.
II j. only " hat al TIE votares and devOtees Of
pleasure must suffer IN a greater or less degree.
W c don't know thar they are more deserving of
pity than the man who has got the govt from
OlereauuC and drinking He has stuffed and
goreed himself and now he suffers They have
cchehtecly played their devilIsh FRANKS. and
ROW they are lugged for them. This Is all III
the natural order, and nothing Is 20 he said
thercupOn
OF tie hgsi named really bad specimens Of the
human animal, nothing but rigorous treatment
seems suited 10 them. Their rampant wicked
ness must BE- restrained The Warden told me
that fouF nen IN his Prison. had given him more
trouble ihen all the rest put together One Of
then became 80 one time entirely refractory. and
wren put cell for his msubordInatiCn. threat
ened % Kill the first man that came 70 his quar-
ttIs he had been @ soldier and he chaihei out
deaths head and bones on a board Tor flag
and boosted II at his grating. declaring lns de-
tern nation never 10 surrender TIE Warden
look tie humane course Of declining 10 agulythe
Gsua. corporal punishment. and coo.ly told hin
thei wren he hauled down lis flag and expressed
. "hl.ier6sS 90 submit Cd the discipline OF ,hr
ss.h' he "tl.o te g., bar not o.. ,h,A AID
zen ,'n 20 us uynC. IL showed nc sirrs Of