, 1885-02-26
JAPANESE PRISONS.


gyman-foculiarlties OF management
New York Pustl
Rev. DIR T. NJ Peters, rector Of st.
Michaei's church, In his report to the Prison
association OF New York. OF a visit to some
OF the prisons OF japan during his recent
Journey around the world. sail:
The thrss prisons TO which / WAS taken ara
all In the great capital city. Toxic, and, a
thy contain different Glasses VI congicta.
sufltsed 10 give 4 god idsA o; the gen raj
manner OF treatment VI the Japanese criini-
nal In tho JAPANESE prisons. after the
aleeping usages Of tho country. the prisoners
lie thick together m o. 0 tory Luiidings up a
mat covering the iioor. rAc miliness u j.
dociiity of the Japanese. even when under a.
long and even lifetime sentence, are dnsi,
past our conception One would suppo-i
That, with such bodies or me1 conflnr :
together in a wooden building, violent oul-
breaks woulI be chronic AMI attempts ut
prison-breaiting frequent On the contrary,
disturbances and uprising are few, ar4 any
thing like an insurrection one may say IA
unknown. The only attempt at Toxic To
break jail in any numbers occurred some
years ago. when cholera made its appear
ance in the Denzu prison. A panic among
tho convict resulted in an attemptto escape.
-eyen ouly succeeding.
"The third, the iarges. AMI most Interest,"
ing Of the prisons Of Toxic, and called
Tsukudazima, is, like our own penitentiary,
upon an island near TO the city. and reached
by boat. There were there at the time OF
our visit zoos men and w-men and boys
undergoing sentence, a part for ten years
and the rest for ihorter periods Among
them were about feventy-five women, quite
n number Of whom had their babies with
them Mothers having niants are, If COM
iuttt,d to prison, permitted to retain them
up to the age OF ) years.
"A great variety o. occupations arc piled
at tie T~sukudazima prison, allowing the
possibility OF employing all tho prisoners
either for purposes connected with tho
prison and government or In other ways
Soma we're engaged in making prison uni
forms, others In preparing uniforms for the
police. The rice usei in the kitchen is
cleaned by hand, or rnther foot machinery,
AMI ground in hand mills. There were also
type-setting, printing. AMI book-bindins
Leather Is cured by one gang and made into
shocs by another. A blacatsmith's shop. "a
factory for w~oodenware. painting on por-
celiin, and the manufacture OF engines Tor
watering gardens and fields, supply wors
for II portion of this men,
"rhe difTei ent trades here carried on
amount 10 number to twenty-seven. This
engine department l Understood to be under
contract, the others noe Seventy-ive boys,
also under sentence, are distributed among
the adult worknen with the object Of giving
them a trade which will bs useful whom
their time is up. This disposition of the
boys was thought TO be an advantage to
them. Each prisoner doing a good days
labor recieves as ! was informal by tn =
Officials. 3 cents for his own a~llowanco4 AL
Z cents more daily AIRS credited to him, tn
accumulation being paid at his discharge
Prisoner. Distinguishing themselvei by gooi
hehavior wolr a badge a. a marx OF honor.
Tuey seam much plcaeI at being pointed
out as they passed by