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Effect Of Imprisonment On The Mind

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Day
26
Month
October
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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To Mío ordinary mlnl, full of plans ¦iiul MhemM for future good, in the many ictive sud frultful years which pcople are so sure remiiin to tliem, the condition oi one eondemned to die at tlic hands of he In in inconceivable To the slok, ofttiines the restraint which comes f rom heir own weakness, the irksomeiiess of nactivity, 8 harder to beir tlimi nll tbs tgonies of pain and disease. This is but he beginninjf with tle prisoner. WithIrawn fmm :ill the intcrests of the world, inving DO lonjrer any part in liunianity, teotlned at a fixed hour to have the poor remnants of hig ]:ilc and fliadowy Ufe chokcd out of' uimattlie han's of the race of which he was a part, he must count he and liours lli.it remain to liim ill tliat agonizinü moment when lieshali, before the unpllying eyes of tlio communily lie lias wronged, writho out tliut vietclied existenre, to wliich lie yetas an inlmal clings. All crime probably has an element of infanlty In it. There is Koniehiny; abnormal and unbalanced, there Is no sen se of proportion, no idea of values. All things are seen tlirough a rtfraoting iiciliuin which stranfrely ditorts and falsitieslhem. But undeithe strain ofprison ifethesanest mind cannot long remin

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Ann Arbor Courier
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