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Prisoners are also taken from the Correctional House before their terms have expired, in cases of excellent conduct, and the government pays the society a sum toward the expenses of such persons until the time of their sentence shall have expired. Lamartine, the poet, was at one time president of one of these truly benevolent societies.
Thereupon, without avowing anything, he flatly submitted that he wished to have the custom of the college. Formerly it was he who had supplied that establishment with school books. But it had become known that he sold objectionable literature clandestinely to the pupils; for which reason, indeed, he had almost been prosecuted at the Correctional Police Court.
Therefore the penal code which much prefers intelligence to muscular vigor has made, of the four varieties mentioned above, a second category, liable only to correctional, not to Ignominious, punishments. Let them now accuse the law of being materialistic and atheistic. We rob, 12. By usury.
As for this client of yours, it is lucky for her Monsieur Picot's relatives are not members of the French academy; it is in the correctional police-court, sixth chamber, where they mean to give her the reward of virtue. However, to come back to what we were talking about.
This genuine creation of the imperial brain became more and more intolerable, serving in Jewish life as a penal and correctional agency, with its "capture" of old and young, its inquisitorial régime of cantonists, its deportation for a quarter of a century and longer into far-off regions.
Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing and housebreaking it is all there. It is no longer a question of correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes.
To ask for a credit is an ordinary business matter; it happens every day that those who undertake an enterprise are obliged to borrow capital; but to ask for the renewal of notes is in commercial jurisprudence what the correctional police is to the court of assizes, a first step towards bankruptcy, just as a misdemeanor leads to crime.
"How sad it is," said the marquise, "to see a man who, Monsieur de Ronquerolles tells me, had the making of a hero in many ways, come down to the level of the correctional police." "His crime so far," said Madame de l'Estorade, dryly, "consists solely in his absence." "At any rate," continued the marquise, "he seems to be a man eaten up by ambition.
This indiscretion of evil parents ... is the way that the first-fruits of correctional or charitable education are corrupted and that a great many minors who would have become useful members of society, are definitely lost to it."
A nightmare seemed to have settled upon me as I passed into the interior of the correctional. "I resigned my name, and I seemed to die to myself for henceforth. 332B disclosed my identity to myself and others. "Through all the weeks that followed I was like one in a dream. Meal times, resting hours, as did every other thing, came with clock-like precision.
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