After Prison--What?

A LIFETIMER'S CELL
By Maud Ballington Booth
New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1903, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY ( September )
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Lovingly dedicated to our boys in prison by their Little Mother who believes in them and looks with confidence to a bright, victorious future when they shall have lived down the old, sad record, stormed the walls of prejudice, wrested just recognition from the skeptical and answered convincingly the question, can a convict be reformed?

This message from my pen is not a work on criminology or penology. No gathering of statistics, nor comparative study of the works or theories of learned authorities on these subjects will be found within its pages. It is just a plea from the heart of one who knows them, for those who cannot voice to the world their own thoughts and feelings. We ask no sentimental sympathy or pity, no patronage or charity, but only understanding, justice, and fair play.
My point of view is that of the cell. All I know of this great sad problem that casts its shadow so much further than the high walls of prison I have learned from those for whom I work, and my great joy in every labor is the knowledge that the boys are with me. In speaking of them thus I do so in prison parlance; for just as Masons on the floor call each other Brothers ; soldiers in camp Comrades ; men in college Fellows ; so we of the prison use the term The Boys, and leave unspoken that hated word Convict, which seems to vibrate with the sound of clanging chains and shuffling lock-step.