The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day . sses is ahvays difficult. Inthe Crimea, just ten years before the awful winterof 1864, the English army was reduced by famineand disease to a mere skeleton. Here there was noanimus, but only incompetence to meet the difficul-ties of the situation. During the Franco-PrussianWar, in spite of the wonderful preparations on thepart of Prussia, bitter complaints of the treatmentof French prisoners were made. But the misfor-tunes or the failures of one nation do not excuseor justify those of another. The treatment of theCivi
The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day . sses is ahvays difficult. Inthe Crimea, just ten years before the awful winterof 1864, the English army was reduced by famineand disease to a mere skeleton. Here there was noanimus, but only incompetence to meet the difficul-ties of the situation. During the Franco-PrussianWar, in spite of the wonderful preparations on thepart of Prussia, bitter complaints of the treatmentof French prisoners were made. But the misfor-tunes or the failures of one nation do not excuseor justify those of another. The treatment of theCivil War prisoners fills some of the darkest pagesof American history. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los AngelesThis book is DUE on the last date stamped below. iJiAY 2 9 196tRECD LD-URL FEB 81973DiSCHARGE-URL -± iddu fit OCT ] 8 iqgb Jl. * Form L9-100m-9,52(A3105)444 Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll AA 000 894 146 0 yiiuL^.^^^so c. M ]Iton-($ritninQl Prisons ENGLISH DEBTORS PRISONS AND PRISONS OF WAR FRENCH WAR PRISONS AMERICAN WAR PRISONS WITH REFERENCES TO THOSE OF OTHER LANDS by MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS Late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain Author 0} Che Mysteries of Police and CrimeFifty Years of Public Service, etc. THE GROLIER SOCIETY EDITION NATIONALELimited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. NUMBER 0(J7. o 2S0{ >y^ INTRODUCTION The word prison connotes crime; a place of pun-ishment and detention where misdeeds are expiatedand penalties enforced. A certain sense of shameattaches to all who have been committed to durance;for according to the old law, the natural inherentright of liberty cannot be surrendered or forfeitedunless by the commission of some great or atrociouscrime. This doctrine was coeval in one countryat least, England, with the foundation of the con-stitution. Yet the seclusion and detention of indi-viduals who had done no wrong, was long the rulein most civilised countries,
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