. Inglenook, The (1911) . useful employment. A changethe environment makes a change in tmental attitude of the man, and it ismuch easier for him to abstain from driwhen he is busy and out of its reach. Tsame principle holds good in reformi:criminals. When a man convicted of criiis placed in a condition where he can leadbusy life doing useful things it is mueasier for him to turn a new leaf. Whconfined in a narrow cell or when laboriin a road gang he is compelled to thinkhis criminal surroundings; but when woiing on a farm he naturally thinks of groing things and the pleasures of living,moving
. Inglenook, The (1911) . useful employment. A changethe environment makes a change in tmental attitude of the man, and it ismuch easier for him to abstain from driwhen he is busy and out of its reach. Tsame principle holds good in reformi:criminals. When a man convicted of criiis placed in a condition where he can leadbusy life doing useful things it is mueasier for him to turn a new leaf. Whconfined in a narrow cell or when laboriin a road gang he is compelled to thinkhis criminal surroundings; but when woiing on a farm he naturally thinks of groing things and the pleasures of living,moving the ball and chain, striped clot!and guards is no mere theory of the wrilor any other person. It has been workout in practice and it has been found tovery successful. The Witzwill Penal Fain Switzerland is a conspicuous examplethat method of conducting prisons. Tsmall country of Switzerland could teachmany things if we would only learn. 1 farm contains perhaps 2,000 acres of lai , (the rtat a 001 Wj The Inglenook 1081. The Foxboroug-h Cure. I jostly moorland. The land and initial? lildings cost the government $350,000 in§|95 or shortly before that, but now theue of the whole plant is estimated at50,000. An annual appropriation isanted the penal farm by the canton infiich it is situated, but that is of no greatsistance since the prison has to pay thenton rent for the land, which often equalsexceeds the appropriation. In the year09 the rental exceeded the appropriation? $1,000. The prison management paid thejfference besides expending $7,000 for newildings. What a difference between suchsystem and the ways in which our pris-s are conducted in America! With usisons are expensive but this one in Switz-land seems to be self supporting. The di-ctor of the institution, Mr. Kellerhals, isfarmer and a practical one, too. The se-ct of the success of the penal farm isund in this statement of Mr. Kellerhals:i superintendent should manage his insti-^ion as if it were his own farm. The b
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