FEMALE LIFE IN PRISON b(x ' \ g fl g fi ég ! F B IN . O S O N . Wx “ ” RI N CHA R ACTE RS m oms of JAN E CA MER N AUTHOR O F P SO , O , ” “ ” TIN G O F M ARY SM IT H A R D N THE COUR , LAZ US IN LO N O , “ ’ ” G R HE R S N E Y fil AN DMO T MO , m, ETO . , ( a n vi l) QBhit tmx . mu n ch " a) w w u r n u t u RO SE PUB LISHI N G MR N OO A Y , er ed a c or din to he f li a n a d i e ea r E n t c g t A ct o P a r a men t of C a , n th y on e thou sa n d ei ht hu n dr ed a n d ei h - ei h b H N ER ROSE 65 g g ty g t, y U T , a m Co. t the De a r t en of A r i u l r , p t g c tu e. PREFACE TO THE PRISON SERIES ” IT ha s been an open secret for the last few years that “ the writer of these lines is the author of Female Life P ” “ C ” “ P Ch in rison, Jane ameron, and rison aracters — the author of them so fa r that he has put into words a n d into shape the utterances of one w ho was for G c several years a prison matron in overnment servi e , f f c and who, retiring rom ill health be ore the publi a “ of P S tion the rison eries , thought that some little o m go d ight be done to prisoners and prison matrons, for of and the workings prison government , by the publication of those details of the shadow- land in h An d w ich she had existed . that some good was ff c e e ted thereby, that public attention was interested, prison systems very much modified , new regulations o a n d of ad pted , the condition the convict more closely u of P o st died , and even improved , on account the ris n ’ M o of R Com atr n s books, there are the records a oyal The mission still to prove . writer has only to assert that his work has been a faithful transcript of aut hentic “ the the o details, and that herein is truth, wh le truth , i and noth ng but the truth . B I N F . W . RO SO N PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION IT is singular to look back upon the various official chan ges that have marked the interim between the fir st ' introduction of this work to the public and the issue of F E I its ourth dition . can remember no period , of measured by years instead months, wherein the so f for for alterations have been mani old, better, f e . wors , the uture can alone determine P rison life of to - day is scarcely the prison life which I N ew of attempted to depicture . theories prison discipline are now in force ; new pr isons have been opened and old ones given up ; new hands regulate, — f or endeav—our to regulate that , the uture must also determine the complex machinery by which our m cri inals are governed . Millbank Prison belongs solely to the “ refractories R f P r at this time ; the old e ormatory at a khurst, under a bl f M r G o s . the g superintendence ibson, is now a Government priso n for all who behave well at Brixto n o Broadmo r is open under a medical direction , and the “ ” principle is attempted there of treating all refr actories — “ ” — women prone to break - out as lunatics ; the Roman Catholic priests hold service daily in our E nglish gaols . M a I i for y humbly suggest, in th s place, the need o of D of the cl se watch on the part the irectors, and v1 PRE FACE T O TH E FO URTH EDITION o of of the ‘ utside public, the workings Broadmoor m of of o c o of syste , and the result the intr du ti n regular Ro man Catholic services into Government prisons mo Broadmoor, as an institution where the st dan “ ” gerons of the danger ous classes ca n be subjected to h c o especial treatment, is a step in the rig t dire ti n but surely the Broadmoor rules and regulations are verging on that extreme of kindness which approximates to w Wh ma d m l or w om f the rong . en cri ina s, en eigning o c — if o madness, are all wed every indulgen e even, rep rt to da n cin a r ties —I be true , g p at regular intervals can venture to predict that every long- timed woman o ma d will be anxious to be pron unced , and use every the h of th f endeavour to per suade aut orities e act . An d I h if R C c believe t at, the oman atholic servi es or ff m f of be longer, o er ore change rom the monotony o of m lab ur, we shall also hear any converts . Tw o men w ho thought deeply of prisons and prisoners have passed away since the publication of this work R h h L o A h h of D Sir ic ard W ately, rd rc bis op ublin, and o K C B In f m . o A h J shua Jebb, the r er the uthor a s on e f ho lost riend and patron, w se kind verdict on this work will ever remain a grateful reminiscence connected h the n of o wit writi g it ; and in the latter, pris ners and prison matrons will miss one whose life was devoted to of f ou r c o o the great study re orming convi t p pulati n . In o f c nclusion, let me reiterate that rom n o oflicer receiving wages for Government service have I been i for for o ndebted any matter my pages and als , to all f of the w w h riends past , kno n and unknown, o by their ’ to m h o kind words helped pro ote t is b ok s success, let me ff h o er here my earty thanks . C O N T E N T S T Y INTRODUC OR o ’ S R O II . A PRISONER ECEPTI N ’ I RO UT IN E I I . A DAY S I P R ISO N O L V . MATR NS IN GENERA PRISONERS IN GENERAL O R : C S V I . PRIS N CHARACTE S THE ARNETT O L D V I I . SEEING THE DIRECT R , A Y SUPERINTENDENT , AND SURGEON R E L IN : O V III . PRISON CHARACTE S C EST A S MMER ’ V IX . PRISONERS ANITY PRISON CHARACTERS T IB K - X I . BREA INGS OUT “ K ” X II . THE DAR II I : - T AIl R X . PRISON CHARACTERS A MOUSE ’ X IV F . PRISONERS RIENDS R LLI XV . PRISON CHARACTERS G ANNY CO S X V I O LD . PRIS N CHI REN I XV I . PRISON CHARACTERS : MARY ANN BALL - XV II I . GOOD CONDUCT WOMEN AND THEIR PRIV ILEGES XIX I O L : F F . PRISON CHARACTERS A GHT OR A S U X X . SUNDAY IN BRIXTON PRISON : XX I . PRISON CHARACTERS LETTY COOPER I I XX . PRISON MATRONS IN GENERAL : SECOND ARTICLE XXII I . PRISON CHARACTERS : TOWERS ’ XXIV . PRISONERS FREEMASONRY EXTRA DUTIES O F MATRONS CONTENTS CHA P . R H : LI Y XXVI . P ISON C ARACTERS A CE GRE XX II L I V . TROUB ESOME PR SONERS XX II I : O S V . PRISON CHARACTERS MARIA C PE I L XX X . THE PRISON SCHOO XX RS S R B K RY X . : AH PRISON CHARACTE A A ER , MA MAY, AND THE JEWESS I ’ F E XXXI . PR SONERS ANCI S I I S : R XXX . PRISON CHARACTER G AHAM XX I II L X . THE PRISON IBRARY L Z : XXXI V . PRISON CHARACTERS E I A TRENT XXXV . MAD PRISONERS : XXXVI . PRISON CHARACTERS EDWARDS I I V XXXV . ISITORS XX II I . R : J D UN B A B I N L XV PRISON CHARACTE S ANE , YDIA L J L CAMB IN , AND OHANNAH ENNAN F XXXI X . THE IN IRMARY X L : . PRISON CHARACTERS MARY ANN SEAGO AND J ONES X LI F L F . U HAM RE UGE : XLII . PRISON CHARACTERS A L ITTLE PRISON MELO DRAMA — XLI I I - R RS L F : L Z . PRISON CHA ACTE I E WOMEN E I ABETH JE N HARRIS, HANNAH CURTIS, AND MARY N IN Gs I R : F E PR SON CHA ACTERS SARAH EATH RSTONE , M ‘ L E AN MARY , BUTTERWORTH , MARGARET LL J WI OIAMS , ANE WHITE ,LBENTON, SUSY DUNN, HON R MATTHEWLS , ALME IA MOTT , MARY ANN SMITH , AND EMI Y AWRENCE LV I L : O F V X . PR SON DISCIP INE—SUGGESTI NS OR IMPRO E MENT THEREIN CONCLU DING REMARKS FE M A L E L IFE IN PR ISO N H P T E R C A I .