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Updated: May 5, 2025

That system of cruelty to prisoners which so disgraced England during the last century, and which for her name she would were erased from her history, we preserve here in all its hideousness. The Governor knows nothing, and cares nothing about the prison; the Attorney-General never darkens its doors; the public scarce give a thought for those within its walls-and to one man, Mr.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life