Excerpt from The Joliet Prison Post, 1914, Vol. 1: Devoted to Prison News I umpire their ball games because I like base ball and enjoy being with them, and I find that my presence at recreation has a good effect in checking profanity. I reason that the more I interest myself in their daily lives the stronger my influence with them will be because of the confidence thus gained. The prison day school, which is under my supervision, was started in October and will be continued at least until May. It may be sus pended during the hot weather. As a day school it is an innovation, as, previously, the prison had known only evening schools, and these were limited to two sessions every week, of one and one-half hours duration each. These were held in one school room in each wing, where fourteen classes recited at one time. The new administration has provided four school rooms, and every prisoner who so de sires may absent himself from work for one hour per day in order to attend. This privi lege depends only upon good behavior in the school and application to the studies. 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.