Excerpt from Outdoor Labor for Convicts, 1907: A Report to the Governor of Illinois The legislature of Illinois and the law-making bodies of all other states and foreign countries are continually compelled to confront the many-sided problem of occupation for convicts. That health, morality, and the ends of reformatory treatment all demand steady and useful occupation for all prisoners is too obvious to need argument. No sane person will openly advocate making of the enemies of society favored and sheltered exceptions to the law that each man must work for what is given him to eat and enjoy. All other men must toil, and certainly convicts have no particular claim to immunity; indeed, they owe Special obligations to the society which they have wronged, Whose property they have made insecure, whose life they have placed in jeopardy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.