Excerpt from Penal Discipline
This book is not an autobiography. But I am a sufficiently obscure individual to be obliged to explain to my readers how, and why, I come to be writing it.
Although I was once an official, this book is entirely unofficial. It is about things which, when I was at work, I had the opportunity of observing, and which my medical training enabled me to study farther in the light of modern teaching on the make-up of the human being.
I have written nothing of my official work. People who feel curious about departmental doings, or on any other matters on which it would not be for me to comment, need not look here.
My personal experiences appear only in so far as they arc explanatory of my theme. I have drawn a few life-pictures to give colour to what might be a less attractive book without them. I have, of course, used no real name or initials, nor description that could ever be recognised.
My allusions to existing conditions in prisons are very few, and only such as the public may gather for itself from official reports, prison rules, or other public papers.
I may remind my readers that the Prison System, with its principle of penal discipline, was not made by the administrative body.
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