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They regard it as a -sort of terrible mediaeval passion, and connect it with the race of men +sort of terrible medi√¶val passion, and connect it with the race of men like Eccelin da Romano, and others, to whom the deliberate infliction of pain gave a real madness of pleasure. But men of the stamp of Eccelin are merely abnormal types of perverted individualism. Ordinary cruelty @@ -443,366 +411,4 @@ France, May 27th, 1897. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life - -Author: Oscar Wilde - -Release Date: February 16, 2013 [EBook #42104] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILDREN IN PRISON *** - - - - -Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - Transcriber's Note: - - Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as - possible. Some changes of spelling have been made. They are listed - at the end of the text. - - OE ligatures have been expanded. - Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. - - - - - CHILDREN IN PRISON - AND - OTHER CRUELTIES - OF - PRISON LIFE. - - MURDOCH & CO., - 26, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, - LONDON. - - - - -PUBLISHERS' NOTE. - - -The circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for -Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of -feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, of being kindly and humane. These -are his offences in plain unofficial language. - -This pamphlet is tendered to earnest persons as evidence that the prison -system is opposed to all that is kind and helpful. Herein is shown a -process that is dehumanizing, not only to the prisoners, but to every -one connected with it. - -Martin was dismissed. It happened in May last year. He is still out of -employment and in poor circumstances. Can anyone help him? - - _February, 1898._ - - - - -SOME CRUELTIES OF PRISON LIFE. - - - THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY CHRONICLE. - -SIR,--I learn with great regret, through an extract from the columns of -your paper, that the warder Martin, of Reading Prison, has been -dismissed by the Prison Commissioners for having given some sweet -biscuits to a little hungry child. I saw the three children myself on -the Monday preceding my release. They had just been convicted, and were -standing in a row in the central hall in their prison dress, carrying -their sheets under the arms previous to their being sent to the cells -allotted to them. I happened to be passing along one of the galleries on -my way to the reception room, where I was to have an interview with a -friend. They were quite small children, the youngest--the one to whom -the warder gave the biscuits--being a tiny little chap, for whom they -had evidently been unable to find clothes small enough to fit. I had, of -course, seen many children in prison during the two years during which I -was myself confined. Wandsworth Prison, especially, contained always a -large number of children. But the little child I saw on the afternoon of -Monday, the 17th, at Reading, was tinier than any one of them. I need -not say how utterly distressed I was to see these children at Reading, -for I knew the treatment in store for them. The cruelty that is -practised by day and night on children in English prisons is incredible, -except to those who have witnessed it and are aware of the brutality of -the system. - -People nowadays do not understand what cruelty is. They regard it as a -sort of terrible mediæval passion, and connect it with the race of men -like Eccelin da Romano, and others, to whom the deliberate infliction of -pain gave a real madness of pleasure. But men of the stamp of Eccelin -are merely abnormal types of perverted individualism. Ordinary cruelty -is simply stupidity. It comes from the entire want of imagination. It is -the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, -of centralisation, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority. -Wherever there is centralisation there is stupidity. What is inhuman in -modern life is officialism. Authority is as destructive to those who -exercise it as it is to those on whom it is exercised. It is the Prison -Board, with the system that it carries out, that is the primary source -of the cruelty that is exercised on a child in prison. The people who -uphold the system have excellent intentions. Those who carry it out are -humane in intention also. Responsibility is shifted on to the -disciplinary regulations. It is supposed that because a thing is the -rule it is right. - -The present treatment of children is terrible, primarily from people not -understanding the peculiar psychology of a child's nature. A child can -understand a punishment inflicted by an individual, such as a parent or -guardian, and bear it with a certain amount of acquiescence. What it -cannot understand is a punishment inflicted by Society. It cannot -realise what Society is. With grown people it is, of course, the -reverse. Those of us who are either in prison or have been sent there, -can understand, and do understand, what that collective force called -Society means, and whatever we may think of its methods or claims, we -can force ourselves to accept it. Punishment inflicted on us by an -individual, on the other hand, is a thing that no grown person endures -or is expected to endure. - -The child consequently, being taken away from its parents by people whom -it has never seen, and of whom it knows nothing, and finding itself in -a lonely and unfamiliar cell, waited on by strange faces, and ordered -about and punished by the representatives of a system that it cannot -understand, becomes an immediate prey to the first and most prominent -emotion produced by modern prison life--the emotion of terror. The -terror of a child in prison is quite limitless. I remember once in -Reading, as I was going out to exercise, seeing in the dimly-lit cell, -right opposite my own, a small boy. Two warders, not unkindly men, were -talking to him, with some sternness apparently, or perhaps giving him -some useful advice about his conduct. One was in the cell with him, the -other was standing outside. The child's face was like a white wedge of -sheer terror. There was in his eyes the mute appeal of a hunted animal. -The next morning I heard him at breakfast-time crying, and calling to be -let out. His cry was for his parents. From time to time I could hear the -deep voice of the warder on duty warning him to keep quiet. Yet he was -not even convicted of whatever little offence he had been charged with. -He was simply on remand. That I knew by his wearing his own clothes, -which seemed neat enough. He was, however, wearing prison socks and -shoes. This showed that he was a very poor boy, whose own shoes, if he -had any, were in a bad state. Justices and magistrates, an entirely -ignorant class as a rule, often remand children for a week, and then -perhaps remit whatever sentence they are entitled to pass. They call -this "not sending a child to prison." It is, of course, a stupid view on -their part. To a little child, whether he is in prison on remand or -after conviction, is a subtlety of social position he cannot comprehend. -To him the horrible thing is to be there at all. In the eyes of humanity -it should be a horrible thing for him to be there at all. - -This terror that seizes and dominates the child, as it seizes the grown -man also, is of course intensified beyond power of expression by the -solitary cellular system of our prisons. Every child is confined to its -cell for twenty-three hours out of the twenty-four. This is the -appalling thing. To shut up a child in a dimly-lit cell for twenty-three -hours out of the twenty-four is an example of the cruelty of stupidity. -If an individual, parent or guardian, did this to a child he would be -severely punished. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children -would take the matter up at once. There would be on all hands the utmost -detestation of whomsoever had been guilty of such cruelty. A heavy -sentence would undoubtedly follow conviction. But our own actual society -does worse itself, and to the child to be so treated by a strange -abstract force, of whose claims it has no cognizance, is much worse than -it would be to receive the same treatment from its father or mother, or -someone it knew. The inhuman treatment of a child is always inhuman, by -whomsoever it is inflicted. But inhuman treatment by Society is to the -child the more terrible because there is no appeal. A parent or guardian -can be moved, and let out the child from the dark lonely room in which -it is confined. But a warder cannot. Most warders are very fond of -children. But the system prohibits them from rendering the child any -assistance. Should they do so, as Warder Martin did, they are dismissed. - -The second thing from which a child suffers in prison is hunger. The -food that is given to it consists of a piece of usually badly-baked -prison bread and a tin of water for breakfast at half-past seven. At -twelve o'clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal -stirabout, and at half-past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin -of water for its supper. This diet in the case of a strong grown man is -always productive of illness of some kind, chiefly of course -diarrhoea, with its attendant weakness. In fact in a big prison -astringent medicines are served out regularly by the warders as a matter -of course. In the case of a child, the child is, as a rule, incapable of -eating the food at all. Anyone who knows anything about children knows -how easily a child's digestion is upset by a fit of crying, or trouble -and mental distress of any kind. A child who has been crying all day -long, and perhaps half the night, in a lonely dimly-lit cell, and is -preyed upon by terror, simply cannot eat food of this coarse, horrible -kind. In the case of the little child to whom Warder Martin gave the -biscuits, the child was crying with hunger on Tuesday morning, and -utterly unable to eat the bread and water served to it for its -breakfast. Martin went out after the breakfasts had been served and -bought the few sweet biscuits for the child rather than see it starving. -It was a beautiful action on his part, and was so recognised by the -child, who, utterly unconscious of the regulation of the Prison Board, -told one of the senior warders how kind this junior warder had been to -him. The result was, of course, a report and a dismissal. - -I know Martin extremely well, and I was under his charge for the last -seven weeks of my imprisonment. On his appointment at Reading he had -charge of Gallery C, in which I was confined, so I saw him constantly. I -was struck by the singular kindness and humanity of the way in which he -spoke to me and to the other prisoners. Kind words are much in prison, -and a pleasant "Good morning" or "Good evening" will make one as happy -as one can be in solitary confinement. He was always gentle and -considerate. I happen to know another case in which he showed great -kindness to one of the prisoners, and I have no hesitation in mentioning -it. One of the most horrible things in prison is the badness of the -sanitary arrangements. No prisoner is allowed under any circumstances to -leave his cell after half-past five p.m. If, consequently, he is -suffering from diarrhoea, he has to use his cell as a latrine, and -pass the night in a most fetid and unwholesome atmosphere. Some days -before my release Martin was going the rounds at half-past seven with -one of the senior warders for the purpose of collecting the oakum and -tools of the prisoners. A man just convicted, and suffering from -violent diarrhoea in consequence of the food, as is always the case, -asked this senior warder to allow him to empty the slops in his cell on -account of the horrible odour of the cell and the possibility of illness -again in the night. The senior warder refused absolutely; it was against -the rules. The man, as far as he was concerned, had to pass the night in -this dreadful condition. Martin, however, rather than see this wretched -man in such a loathsome predicament, said he would empty the man's slops -himself, and did so. A warder emptying a prisoner's slops is, of course, -against the rules, but Martin did this act of kindness to the man out of -the simple humanity of his nature, and the man was naturally most -grateful. - -As regards the children, a great deal has been talked and written lately -about the contaminating influence of prison on young children. What is -said is quite true. A child is utterly contaminated by prison life. But -the contaminating influence is not that of the prisoners. It is that of -the whole prison system--of the governor, the chaplain, the warders, the -lonely cell, the isolation, the revolting food, the rules of the Prison -Commissioners, the mode of discipline as it is termed, of the life. -Every care is taken to isolate a child from the sight even of all -prisoners over sixteen years of age. Children sit behind a curtain in -chapel, and are sent to take exercise in small sunless yards--sometimes -a stone-yard, sometimes a yard at the back of the mills--rather than -that they should see the elder prisoners at exercise. But the only -really humanising influence in prison is the influence of the prisoners. -Their cheerfulness under terrible circumstances, their sympathy for each -other, their humility, their gentleness, their pleasant smiles of -greeting when they meet each other, their complete acquiescence in their -punishments, are all quite wonderful, and I myself learnt many sound -lessons from them. I am not proposing that the children should not sit -behind a curtain in chapel, or that they should take exercise in a -corner of the common yard. I am merely pointing out that the bad -influence on children is not, and could never be, that of the prisoners, -but is, and will always remain, that of the prison system itself. There -is not a single man in Reading Gaol that would not gladly have done the -three children's punishment for them. When I saw them last it was on the -Tuesday following their conviction. I was taking exercise at half-past -eleven with about twelve other men, as the three children passed near -us, in charge of a warder, from the damp, dreary stone-yard in which -they had been at their exercise. I saw the greatest pity and sympathy in -the eyes of my companions as they looked at them. Prisoners are, as a -class, extremely kind and sympathetic to each other. Suffering and the -community of suffering makes people kind, and day after day as I tramped -the yard I used to feel with pleasure and comfort what Carlyle calls -somewhere "the silent rhythmic charm of human companionship." In this as -in all other things, philanthropists and people of that kind are astray. -It is not the prisoners who need reformation. It is the prisons. - -Of course no child under fourteen years of age should be sent to prison -at all. It is an absurdity, and, like many absurdities, of absolutely -tragic results. If, however, they are to be sent to prison, during the -daytime they should be in a workshop or schoolroom with a warder. At -night they should sleep in a dormitory, with a night-warder to look -after them. They should be allowed exercise for at least three hours a -day. The dark, badly-ventilated, ill-smelling prison cells are dreadful -for a child, dreadful indeed for anyone. One is always breathing bad air -in prison. The food given to children should consist of tea and -bread-and-butter and soup. Prison soup is very good and wholesome. A -resolution of the House of Commons could settle the treatment of -children in half an hour. I hope you will use your influence to have -this done. The way that children are treated at present is really an -outrage on humanity and common-sense. It comes from stupidity. - -Let me draw attention now to another terrible thing that goes on in -English prisons, indeed in prisons all over the world where the system -of silence and cellular confinement is practised. I refer to the large -number of men who become insane or weak-minded in prison. In convict -prisons this is, of course, quite common; but in ordinary gaols also, -such as that I was confined in, it is to be found. - -About three months ago, I noticed amongst the prisoners who took -exercise with me a young man who seemed to me to be silly or -half-witted. Every prison of course has its half-witted clients, who -return again and again, and may be said to live in the prison. But this -young man struck me as being more than usually half-witted on account of -his silly grin and idiotic laughter to himself, and the peculiar -restlessness of his eternally twitching hands. He was noticed by all the -other prisoners on account of the strangeness of his conduct. From time -to time he did not appear at exercise, which showed me that he was being -punished by confinement to his cell. Finally, I discovered that he was -under observation, and being watched night and day by warders. When he -did appear at exercise, he always seemed hysterical, and used to walk -round crying or laughing. At chapel he had to sit right under the -observation of two warders, who carefully watched him all the time. -Sometimes he would bury his head in his hands, an offence against the -chapel regulations, and his head would be immediately struck up by a -warder, so that he should keep his eyes fixed permanently in the -direction of the Communion-table. Sometimes he would cry--not making any -disturbance--but with tears streaming down his face and a hysterical -throbbing in the throat. Sometimes he would grin idiot-like to himself -and make faces. He was on more than one occasion sent out of chapel to -his cell, and of course he was continually punished. As the bench on -which I used to sit in chapel was directly behind the bench at the end -of which this unfortunate man was placed, I had full opportunity of -observing him. I also saw him, of course, at exercise continually, and I -saw that he was becoming insane, and was being treated as if he was -shamming. - -On Saturday week last, I was in my cell at about one o'clock occupied in -cleaning and polishing the tins I had been using for dinner. Suddenly I -was startled by the prison silence being broken by the most horrible and -revolting shrieks or rather howls, for at first I thought some animal -like a bull or a cow was being unskilfully slaughtered outside the -prison walls. I soon realised, however, that the howls proceeded from -the basement of the prison, and I knew that some wretched man was being -flogged. I need not say how hideous and terrible it was for me, and I -began to wonder who it was who was being punished in this revolting -manner. Suddenly it dawned upon me that they might be flogging this -unfortunate lunatic. My feelings on the subject need not be chronicled; -they have nothing to do with the question. - -The next day, Sunday 16th, I saw the poor fellow at exercise, his weak, -ugly, wretched face bloated by tears and hysteria almost beyond -recognition. He walked in the centre ring along with the old men, the -beggars and the lame people, so that I was able to observe him the whole -time. It was my last Sunday in prison, a perfectly lovely day, the -finest day we had had the whole year, and there, in the beautiful -sunlight, walked this poor creature--made once in the image of -God--grinning like an ape, and making with his hands the most fantastic -gestures, as though he was playing in the air on some invisible stringed -instrument, or arranging and dealing counters in some curious game. All -the while these hysterical tears, without which none of us ever saw -him, were making soiled runnels on his white swollen face. The hideous -and deliberate grace of his gestures made him like an antic. He was a -living grotesque. The other prisoners all watched him, and not one of -them smiled. Everybody knew what had happened to him, and that he was -being driven insane--was insane already. After half-an-hour, he was -ordered in by the warder, and, I suppose, punished. At least he was not -at exercise on Monday, though I think I caught sight of him at the -corner of the stone-yard, walking in charge of a warder. - -On the Tuesday--my last day in prison--I saw him at exercise. He was -worse than before, and again was sent in. Since then I know nothing of -him, but I found out from one of the prisoners who walked with me at -exercise that he had had twenty-four lashes in the cook-house on -Saturday afternoon, by order of the visiting justices on the report of -the doctor. The howls that had horrified us all were his. - -This man is undoubtedly becoming insane. Prison doctors have no -knowledge of mental disease of any kind. They are as a class ignorant -men. The pathology of the mind is unknown to them. When a man grows -insane, they treat him as shamming. They have him punished again and -again. Naturally the man becomes worse. When ordinary punishments are -exhausted, the doctor reports the case to the justices. The result is -flogging. Of course the flogging is not done with a cat-of-nine-tails. -It is what is called birching. The instrument is a rod; but the result -on the wretched half-witted man may be imagined. - -His number is, or was, A. 2. 11. I also managed to find out his name. It -is Prince. Something should be done at once for him. He is a soldier, -and his sentence is one of court-martial. The term is six months. Three -have yet to run. - -May I ask you to use your influence to have this case examined into, and -to see that the lunatic prisoner is properly treated? - -No report by the Medical Commissioners is of any avail. It is not to be -trusted. The medical inspectors do not seem to understand the difference -between idiocy and lunacy--between the entire absence of a function or -organ and the diseases of a function or organ. This man A. 2. 11, will, -I have no doubt, be able to tell his name, the nature of his offence, -the day of the month, the date of the beginning and expiration of his -sentence, and answer any ordinary simple question; but that his mind is -diseased admits of no doubt. At present it is a horrible duel between -himself and the doctor. The doctor is fighting for a theory. The man is -fighting for his life. I am anxious that the man should win. But let the -whole case be examined into by experts who understand brain-disease, and -by people of humane feelings who have still some common-sense and some -pity. There is no reason that the sentimentalist should be asked to -interfere. He always does harm. He culminates at his starting point. His -end, as his origin, is an emotion. - -The case is a special instance of the cruelty inseparable from a stupid -system, for the present Governor of Reading is a man of gentle and -humane character, greatly liked and respected by all the prisoners. He -was appointed in July last, and though he cannot alter the rules of the -prison system, he has altered the spirit in which they used to be -carried out under his predecessor. He is very popular with the prisoners -and with the warders. Indeed he has quite elevated the whole tone of the -prison-life. Upon the other hand, the system is of course beyond his -reach as far as altering its rules is concerned. I have no doubt that he -sees daily much of what he knows to be unjust, stupid, and cruel. But -his hands are tied. Of course I have no knowledge of his real views of -the case of A. 2. 11, nor, indeed, of any of his views on our present -system. I merely judge him by the complete change he brought about in -Reading Prison. Under his predecessor the system was carried out with -the greatest harshness and stupidity.--I remain, Sir, your obedient -servant, - - OSCAR WILDE. - -France, May 27th, 1897. - - - - - Transcriber's notes: - - The following is a list of changes made to the original. - The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. - - whom Warder Martin gave the buscuits, the child was - whom Warder Martin gave the biscuits, the child was - - sight of him at the corner of the stoneyard, walking in - sight of him at the corner of the stone-yard, walking in - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Children in Prison and Other Cruelties -of Prison Life, by Oscar Wilde - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILDREN IN PRISON *** - -***** This file should be named 42104-8.txt or 42104-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/1/0/42104/ - -Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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They regard it as a -sort of terrible mediæval passion, and connect it with the race of men +sort of terrible mediæval passion, and connect it with the race of men like Eccelin da Romano, and others, to whom the deliberate infliction of pain gave a real madness of pleasure. But men of the stamp of Eccelin are merely abnormal types of perverted individualism. 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