What is Important in Raising a Child, is Important for the Prisoner

   All the things that are important in raising a child, are important in correcting a criminal. You must love the child, for if you neglect him, he might be come a delinquent. Even so, if you neglect to love the prisoner, he is likely to remain a delinquent.
   You must constantly watch over the child, correcting him for each thing he does wrong, that he will learn the things he should do. Even so, you should watch the prisoner in everything he does, all day long, and catch him when he belittles another, catch him when he lies, catch him when he cheats at a game of cards. For, if you are to reform him, here is how you do it: He must learn right from wrong, same as a child.
   You must prepare him to make a living someday. Preparation for a vocation as always been part of a child's training, even before there were schools. So it is with the prisoner: he should be trained for a vocation lest he exit the prison without a way of making a living. It is as important to the prisoner as it is to the young person.