Excerpt from The City Jail: A Symposium The environment of yesterday becomes the heredity of today; we were bequeathed our present jail system, and it has been improved slowly during the last fifty years. Society itself is mainly responsible for the crime com mitted in the world. The people as a whole make the conditions; the conditions make crime; and the victims have to suffer. Jails are, therefore, the necessary concomitants of our system of special privilege, land monopoly and unjust laws. The wiseacres build peni tentiaries and jails to punish criminals, who have been reared in an atmosphere of hatred and lies, instead of removing the con ditions which create them. 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.