The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Irish Prison Fare.

Since pointed last week the insufficient diet at present
enforced in Irish PRISONS have official comics of
the prison deares of both Ireland England and we be-
eve shall be able to convince everybody in the
subject that humanity ought dictate those have the
power immediate revision of the Irish dietary.
1t be recolected that the dietary observed in Ire
land settled somewhere about $780, when famine still
rife the land and when the hasarved peasantry had dis
covered that the eade to from was to
admission into goal ut that time-and now-ess
dsgaceul and less odous in their eyes than wokhouse The
officials charged with the framing new dietary de-
signey and udcouy pitched it, in consequence as DOS
s and the prison fare of ireland settled in has re.
manned unchanged to the rr mt moment
the diet of the shman to term of mpris.
onmen i'll Ireland remains cruelty different from that of
of English prison. As stated other day. the
Iishman when in prison at home gets but day.
breakfast and dinner at pm His breakfast consists
of but OF Indian meal and oatmeal boiled water his
dinner of but ii Of brown bread With his breakfast he
gets half pint and with his dinner pint milk Supper he
has none, his fast remaining unbroken from pm to al on
the following morning. space of Is hours. And although
years there has been charge in the Irish pTi
diet there has been considerable change the Irish pr
discipline the teadmi shot drill and solitary confne-
Misunderstanding improvements nccesstang supply of more
foodhavng been pretty generally introduced the
Irish goals.
The prison diet of the English criminal exceeds
that of the hman Against the ishmans SO o. of bread
of meal week the Erglishman gets l4S T. of
bread against the hishman's pint and half of milk dav
Engshm4n gets breakfast three of pint of
cocoa containing half of cocoa, milk and half
of moasses and at supper or the English criminal
luxurious dog-sups pint of Cruel containing o. of
meal of milk and half of molasses And then
dinner against which the Ishman gets uong the English
DINNER-Sunday: cheese, bread. Monday: o.
mutton with its liquor favored with ] o. onions and
thckened with bread left previous day. Id potatoes
Tuesday, pint soup, containing shin of beef o. pearl
barley fresh vegetables including onions h. potatoes
bread Wednesday: or mutton, with its liquor favor
ed and thckened above h. potatoes bread Thursday
ID pudding containing J suet o. -four 81 o.
water h. potatoes, bread. Friday: o. beef with its own
liquor favored and hckened above potatoes bread
Saturday beef with its liquor favored and thick
ened above, Id. potatoes, bread.
1t will be from expression in this bill of fare that
| he ba
more for his stated to be made of favored with
and hckened with bread left tie previous DAY. 1t is
right abeboded prisoners Ireland if committed
for less than months and if employed exhaustng
labor such the readmil shot drill may-on the recon-,
mendation of the medical ocer-get meal for break
FAST and or OF bread Tor dinner over and above the regular
goal raon But if committed for less than months able
bodied criminals in Ireland get cruel instead of milk made
of half of meal boiled in Pint of water Cruel
for English criminals being have shown gen
fluid, made of o. of meal of milk and half an
Of molasss pint of The only change which
the ishman has in his solid food is substitution of
potatoes for bread in the proportion of h. of potatoes IA
of bread and h. of potatoes meal The ad-
of the present Irish goal dietary urge prisoners
seldom complain IT. and that the nedca officers of the prisons
hare the pouer of rang cases where they consider in
complaints seldom made is probably to
be attributed to the fact that hen made they seldom
and except and critical few medical off
would incur the unpopuarity recommending
generally augmentation iii the goal dietary which would
volve corresponding augmentation in the county rate Ref
pp "a and SO of the Appendix to the Fortyouh
report will show that when such complaints made they
usually by reference the odous nature of the crime
Tor which the complainant IS lncaceraed and by the obseva
ton that inquiry the Inspector has asceraned that the ps
had received the "ul goal alowancevz Of stir
about of bread day. The inspectors that the
solid food given prisoners Ireland is generally good
quality many occasions they report that the goal
mk-the only animal food prisoners receives thin and
the buttemk sometimes substituted for be
drunk.
1t will be well point out in concluding this article that
cruelty the Irish prison dietary Furnishes prisoners of the
lower class who have been used when liberty hard and
scany fare it positive starvation prisoners of higher
hasa
vantage of turning upon society," when their of inn
prisonment has expired weak broken physically in
capable of earning honest livelihood if they
posed attempt do so.-PaH Mall (Londo,) Gazette ay
"A, 1867.
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