Penal servitude is good enough for them.

Perhaps it is! But it ought to be called by another name, and legally signify the inmates to be "patients," not criminals.

Let us visit a prison where we shall find a sufficient number of prisoners to enable us to form an idea as to their physical and mental condition.
Come, then, on Sunday morning into a famous prison that long stood as a model to the world.

We are going to morning service, when we shall have an opportunity of seeing face to face eight hundred male prisoners.

But before we enter the chapel, let us walk round the hospital and see those who are on the sick list.
One look as we enter the ward convinced us that some are lying there whose only chance of freedom is through the gates of death.
In yonder corner lies a young man of twenty-one years; the governor tells us that he is friendless, homeless, and a hopeless consumptive.