The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day . Prisons <$(w %m DEPORTATION AND COLONIZATION BRITISH AND AMERICAN PRISONS OF TO-DAY by MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS Late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain Author of Uhe Mysteries of Police and CrimeFifty Years of Public Service, etc. THE GROLIER SOCIETY EDITION NATIONALELimited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. NUMBER9 307 hfv XSOl INTRODUCTION It will hardly be denied after an impartial con-sideration of all the facts I shall herein set forth,that the British prison system can challenge com-parison with


The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day . Prisons <$(w %m DEPORTATION AND COLONIZATION BRITISH AND AMERICAN PRISONS OF TO-DAY by MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS Late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain Author of Uhe Mysteries of Police and CrimeFifty Years of Public Service, etc. THE GROLIER SOCIETY EDITION NATIONALELimited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. NUMBER9 307 hfv XSOl INTRODUCTION It will hardly be denied after an impartial con-sideration of all the facts I shall herein set forth,that the British prison system can challenge com-parison with any in the world. It may be no moreperfect than other human institutions, but its ad-ministrators have laboured long and steadfastly toapproximate perfection. Many countries have al-ready paid it the compliment of imitation. In mostof the British colonies, the prison system so nearlyresembles the system of the mother country, that Ihave not given their institutions any separate anddistinct description. No doubt different methods are employed in thegreat Empire of India; bhistoryromanceof05grif


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