CHAPTER V.--THE PERIOD OF HARD LABOR--Routine--Talk with the

Chaplain--My Work in the Kitchen--The Machine-made Menu--Visitors to the Kitchen--The “Homelike” Cell--The Opiate of Acquiescence--Visits of Prisoners’ Friends--My Mother’s Visits--A Letter from Lord Russell--Punished for Another’s Fault--Forms of Punishment--The True Aim of Punishment--The Evil of Collective Punishment--The Evil of Constant Supervision--Some Good Points of Convict Prisons--My Sickness--Taken to the Infirmary--The Utter Desolation of a Sick Prisoner, 93