Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-19
JAPANESE PRISONS.
Interesting Report by . New York Glen
cyman-PecuIlaritieso Of Management.


gyman-PecuIiaritieso Of Management.
New YORK POST
Rev. Dr. T II Peters rector Of st
Michaers church, in his report TO the Prison
nssociatioa OF New York, OF a visit TO soms
OF the prisons OF Japan during his recent
journey around the world, said:
THE three prisons 10 which ! was taken are
all in the great capital city, Toxic, and, a:
they contain different cla-s-s Of colvicts,
sufiiced 70 give good idea OF the general
manner Of treatment of the japanese crimi-
nal. In the japanese prisons, after tae
sleeping us9ges OF the country, the prisoners
lie thick together in e-story buildings upor
mats covering the floor. Tie mildness and
docility OF the Japanee, even when under a
long and even LIFETIME sentence, are quite
past our conception One would suppose
that, with such bodies Of men confined
together in wooden building, violent out
breaks woull be chronic ami attempts a.
prisoa-breakiny frequent On tine contrary,
disturbance and uprising are few, AID any
thing like an insurrection one may say Is
unknown TIE c:ly attempt at Toxic tc
break jail in any hunters occurred some
years ago. when cholera made is appear
aEce in the DenzI prison a panic among
e. Ell only succeeding.
The third, the larses. AMI most interest
In Of the prisons of Toxic, and called
Tsukudazima, Is, Ike our own peni;entiary,
upon an island near 10 the city, and reached
by boat There were there at the time Of
our visit ZOOS men and w-men and boy.
undergoing sentence, part for ten year;
gui tie ret for horter periods. AJaong
- gr--a ~
e number OK wGom had their babies witt
;len- Mothers having infants are, Il com
United to prison, permitted to retain then
up to the age of 3 years.
"A great variety o, occupations are piled
al the Tsukudazima prison, allowing the
possibility Of employing ali the prisoner;
either FOX purposes Connected with tie
prison AID government or in other ways
Some were engaged IN making prison uni
forms others in preparing uniforms for the
police. The rice used in the kitchen /
cleaned by hand, or rather foot machinery
ani ground in hand mills There were AIS
type-settinz, printing, and book-biniiny
Leather Is cured by one gang and made int
shoes by another 4 b!acksmith's shop, {
factory for woodenware. painting On por
ceIain, and the manufacture Of engines foi
watering Sariens ana E@lls, supply "oTh
for a portion Of the men.
The difTeI ent trades here carried OF
amount in number 70 tTenty-seven. Thu
engine department | understood u be under
contract, the others not. Seventy-tive boys
also under sentence, arc distributed among
ths adult workman with the object OF givin.
them a 40 which viii b. useful whel
their time is up. This disposition of th'
boys was thought to be an advantage L
them. Each prisoner doing good days
labor receives, a / IVES INFORMED by tn
officials. 3 cent, :or his own allowances, aai
cents more daily are credited to him, tn
accumulation being pail at MS discharge.
Pris ners ci,tins gushing themselves by good
behavior wear a badge ~ mark Of honor.
Tley seem much plea 81 at being poiataC
out "a they passed by