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4 ie " o an. TB th; 2s -- on J Wj a-- 1 | y ks s ts CENTRAL PRISON. e | Mr, WOOD then resumed his speech on |= _' _ | the motion cf :l'd O.Eulllnn.n H:' ul& :3 | supposed it w generally adm that there was no country in the world in which there was so little oause for orlme as | the Provivce of Ontario, where homest and Industrious men, and especlally unmarried m claas s"v"on .'luut sure to obtain & , a large of those who filied the prisons m-u the nelghbouriog States wore single moen, , and, though there was really no exouse for orime here, every country had to have its | | © geol and Ieckup», its constables n:'n:lloo- | C men, and sli the _ paraphir of ; orlminal jastive, and the Provincs generally was put to an _ expense of not far from a mtillion dollars annually for all purposes counested with the orimiaal ' olass, (Hear, bear ) _ A man who comnis: | Bed a crimeo was surrounded by all the protec-- | blon of the law, his case was fairly siated to a jury, and he got the bsnefit of every doubs _A jadge in seatencing him, when convicted, m'ght tell him that if he had boen f In the bab's cf spendiog his nights in Bnbllng he'lls or places of a worest character, would now be rsent to a place where rog: P ular hours wore kept; that if he suffered *z | ftrom Cisease ho w--u'd boe constantly attend. «$ $ ed by pbysiclans; that, it he had -- [ | not g«n In the habit of attending E the Houre of GoS, he would be ' P sent to a plaos where he would be attandei KA by clergy men ; and he would zot have t» work longer than an ordinary workingman, and would be fed as we'll as a British sol-- dier, The jadgo might even go further, and assure the prhl:urulhat & lhl?utlonl mewspaper wou e up e oause Hianything went wrong, and a membcr of ParHament wou!ld be provided to move for a | Committee to erquire into his care, and would be applanded by members of the Oppoaltion, and when his torm of service was ended he would havs monsy given him to carry him home. That was really the state of the case, and yet the kon, g ntleman said the prisoners were treated worse than dog*, ' The Government o! Mr, Jshn SandGeld ; 5 Macdonald, when th--y proposed to bulld the . Central P:ison, gavs two unanswerable reasouns, They stated that the Statute Book required thas certain ctimes should | entail oertan puanishments, and that '<i | men sentenced to nard labour ia the county gaols did not perform hard labour, They proposecd to provide a placs where tho sen-- I tence of the jia+jgzs would ba carrled4 out. \ 4 They further propowd to make ths labour ' of prisoners remuneratve, _ Tae reeult was . lhe eatablishment ot the Central Pison, h which was compilected ia the latter part of F 1873 or the begiantsg of 1874, Hsapoke of that prison wi--h a groat deal of pride, be-- ' cause it was gonerally admitted that it was the best adapted for carrying out pricon dis. % olpline, for affordiay comfort to the prisaners, and for the yeneral management of the pil-- | som, Thers was no prison in thes Uaised 4 States equal o it, I1 appointing othoers > great care bad to bs taken, and the Govern. ment selected for the W arden a gentleman who for many l!un bad ccoupled the pasition ot ' Chief of Policse in the city of Toronto, who had obtained a hijh reputation in that or § olty, and bad al.o a high soolal lxonlllon. Fotwhhmnmu what might be sald agalost | f him by the men.ber for Es Peterboro', dis-- charged guards, asd sensationsl papers, \ Capt P.ioce wss a good man, an § hoxourable mar, aod a gentleman, (Hear, hear ) The cuic4 ana deputy ohilef \| guards were also jiwmportant officers, Mr. P | Beaumont, from uis appearanca, his ability, ~-- his education aud his apparent hoanesty, scemed to be a proper man for the position | of chlief guard, an6 a« far as could be learned | the man appon:ed ceputy chlef guard was I well fitted s1or the posirion, Every presau-- . tlon had been takon before ndopfln%dlnl- pl.lnw rules, The Iarpector and the Warden 4 vhited many priss=s in the U aited Btates, the Chisf Guarti was sent to one o!f the largest prisons in M--chigao, and the Dsputy o ~---- COhie! Guard rema«ined for two months in the pitron at A'bany, one of the mout | suoccess(ul in the U.ited Stater, under | | the direction of Col. Pilsbury, who gave him a testimonial in the highest terms, The regulations adopted were as far as possible Yhose of that mciel institution at Albany. Bince the inveisrtg«tion he (Mr. Wood) had taken great trousie to find out what was the practice in other prisons, He had visited those at Auburno, wuere there wore 1,400 prisoners, and at Aibany, where there wore | 1l