Oriental Prisons Prisons and Crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey

Lord Macaulay’s work--Commission appointed to look into state of prisons--Appointment of an inspector-general of gaols--Charge of district gaols given into the hands of civil su...

Difficulties experienced in administering justice--Perjury common--Native officers delight in torture--Various devices used to extort evidence--Characteristics of the Indian cri...

Murder a religious rite--Consulting the omens--The sacred pickaxe or “kussee”--The “goor” or consecrated sugar--Certain castes under the protection of the goddess Bhowanee spare...

Commission appointed in 1837 to consider means for the suppression of Dacoity--Story of a daring attack upon government--Disguises assumed by Dacoits--The Brinjaras--The “Byrage...

Extended use of poison--Horrible stories--The Gaekwar of Baroda charged with attempted poison of British resident, Colonel Phayre--Diamond dust--Modern instances in Bombay--Murd...

Revived as a penal settlement after the Indian Mutiny in 1857--Now holds some twelve thousand convicts--Port Blair system established--Graduated treatment--Well-selected marriag...

British acquisition of Burmah--Quarrels with the king in 1824--His reprisals--British subjects seized and sent to prison--Mr. Henry Gouger’s narrative--The “Death Prison”--Gigan...

Great cruelty in the administration of the law in China--Experience of Lord Loch--Iron collar, chains and creeping vermin--Earth maggot--The “Ling che,” a slow ignominious death...

Enlightened Japan has striven to establish a perfect prison system--New prisons--Deportation to the island of Yezo--Agricultural labour and work in coal mines--Two fine prisons...

Penal code in Egypt of Mohammedan origin and derived from the Koran--The law of talion--Price of blood--Blood feuds and blood revenge--The courbash freely used to raise taxes--O...

Old castles used as prisons--The Castle of Europe--The Seven Towers and the “Well of Blood”--The Seraglio and the Bagnio--The Zaptie--Lack of prison discipline--Midhat Pasha and...