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Updated: May 21, 2025
He disciplined the sick; he closed the infirmary again. That large room, furnished with comforts, nurses and air, was an inconsistency. "A new prison is a collection of cells," said Hawes. The infirmary was a spot in the sun. The exercise yard in this prison was a twelve-box stable for creatures concluded to be wild beasts. The labor-yard was a fifteen-stall stable for ditto.
He went into the labor-yard, looked at the cranks, examined the numbers printed on each in order to learn their respective weights, and see that the prisoners were not overburdened. Went with the governor into three or four cells, and asked the prisoners if they had any complaint to make. The unanimous answer was "No!"
"I shall see him. The labor-yard is the first place I go to." Mr. Hawes knew that, Mr. Woodcock. The justice found Carter in that state of pitiable torture, the sight of which made Mr. Eden very ill. He went up to him and said, "My poor fellow, I am very sorry for you; but discipline must be maintained, and you are now suffering for fighting against it.
Your sentence was hard labor, wasn't it? I don't know why you weren't sent on a fortnight ago." Fry then took him out into the labor-yard, which he found perforated with cells about half the size of his hermitage in the corridor. In each of these little quiet grottoes lurked a monster, called a crank.
The crank is a diabolical engine to keep thieves from ever being anything but thieves. He arrived at this conclusion by a chain of reasoning for which there is no room in a narrative already smothered in words. This antipathy to the crank quite overpowered him. He had been now three weeks in the jail, and all that time only thrice in the labor-yard.
It cut his understanding like a knife to see a man turn a handle for hours and nothing come of it. However, one day, from a sense of duty, he forced himself into the labor-yard and walked wincing down the row. "These are our schoolmen," said he. "As the schoolmen labored most intellectually and scientifically practical result, nil, so these labor harder than other men result, nil.
Woodcock with a depressed manner, as of a tender but wise father, who in punishing his offspring had punished himself, and said in a low, regretful voice, "I am sorry to say I have been compelled to punish a prisoner very severely." "What is his offense?" "Being refractory and breaking his crank. You will find him in the labor-yard. He was so violent we were obliged to put him in the jacket."
Thence into the labor-yard, and prepared a crank for an athletic prisoner by secretly introducing a weight, and so making the poor crank a story-teller, and the prologue to punishment. Returning to the body of the prison, he called out, "Prisoners on the list for hard labor to be taken to the yard."
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