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AN IRISH NEWGATE "iN THE FIELDS." 257
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O I Had Lieard A Great Deal Of An Irish....
" Yes , they know all about it from tlie very first . The whole system is lained to themand from its rulesas so explainedwe
never depart exp . The man knows , that the officers , cannot favor him , , or any one else— -that each man must work out his own release
from the regular prisons by a steady accumulation of good marks . " " A man's stay in Spike Island is not regulated by the term of
the " ori No g — inal not sentence at all . ? " The original sentence includes the whole but the
time in which the man is under our rules or supervision ; time he spends in Monntjoy , the first and most penal jail , the time
he spends in Spike Island ( the second jail , where he has some intercourse with his fellows , and a probationary opportunity
of showing good conduct ) , and the time to be spent here are regulated bthe marks earned by the man himself—by his own
y , good conduct . If a man behaves badly , his whole four or seven years may be a period of severe penal detention at Mountjoy and
behaves Spike Island well —never spend entering the Lusk last . ei On ghteen the other months hand of , his a man term who of
sentence divided may thus : —nine months here and nine months on ticket of licence . The nine months here are spent as you see ; the
nine months on ticket of licence in employment generally obtained for him by our lecturer—a man who , by his peculiar energy , exercises
here the functions discharged in England by a society , the Discharged t Prisoners' Aid SocietyWe interfere herenot through any morbid
feeling for the prisoners . , but out of consideration , for the society into which we throw back the men . We think it right before we
make the prison bonds quite free to try them as to how they will ' fi of of y . good licence Our op S inion they pike . are Islan Here quite d prob in free Lusk ation , but the sh under ow men s energy are our almost surveillance and to free honest return ; . on earning Surel to ticket the y , ,
old should paths there of crime exist , any this wish course , latent of probation for some would time , bring it out . ' following Our talk us , ended and , pointing we walked * out up here the a fields fine field , the of superintendent grass , there a
horses unpractised noble field were of yoked eye oat . s , We to the the rich cam p e loug luxuriance upon h , and a the of man which man ploug him at for tracted hin self g few 1 : was two even minutes a fine fine my
wi well ping -made 1 the man sweat of off . fort his y , brow and . he He stood turned near and u . move s d a on , grinding his lough deep into the soiland making a clean , straight furrow .
p , " He is hired , I suppose , " said I . " Nohe is a convict . "
" A convict , ! " I do not know why it was , but this seemed the most astonishing be
handling metamorp fcheir doing a hosis it pitchfork for of a continuance all . and That tossin a was p g ick hay remark pocket , was able or not burg enoug quit lar e strange h should ); but ( a thoug crimi seen h -
nal ' following the plough'' seemed an odd '' derangement of epithets . ' _'
An Irish Newgate "In The Fields." 257
AN IRISH NEWGATE _" iN THE FIELDS . " 257
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/41/
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