March

But this is a matter of no moment.

the prison chaplains are entirely useless they are as a class well-meaning but foolish indeed silly men they are of no help to any prisoner once every six weeks or so a key turns in the lock of one's cell door and the chaplain enters one stands of course at attention he asks one whether one has been reading the bible one answers yes or no as the case may be he then quotes a few texts and goes out and locks the door sometimes he leaves a tract the officials who should not be allowed to hold any employment outside the prison or to have any private practice are the prison doctors at present the prison doctors have usually if not always a large private practice and hold appointments in other institutions the consequence is that the health of the prisoners is entirely neglected and the sanitary condition of the prison entirely overlooked as a class i regard and have always from my earliest youth regarded doctors as by far the most humane profession in the community but i must make an exception for prison doctors they are as far as i came across them and from what i saw of them in hospital and elsewhere brutal in manner coarse in temperament and utterly indifferent to the health of the prisoners or their comfort if prison doctors were prohibited from private practice they would be compelled to take some interest in the health and sanitary condition of the people under their charge i have tried to indicate in my letter a few of the reforms necessary to our english prison system they are simple practical and humane they are of course only a beginning but it is time that a beginning should be made and it can only be started by a strong pressure of public opinion formularised in your powerful paper and fostered by it but to make even these reforms effectual much has to be done and the first and perhaps the most difficult task is to humanize the governors of prisons to civilize the warders and to christianize the chaplains yours etc the author of the ballad of reading gaol march twenty third end of section TO ROBERT ROSS, MARCH, 1898.

FROM AFTER BERNAVAL.

THIS LIBRIVOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

PARIS, MARCH, 1898.

MY DEAR ROBBY, A THOUSAND THANKS FOR CHECK.

WOULD YOU FIND OUT FROM CONSTANCE WHETHER IT IS MEANT FOR THE REARS, OR WHETHER I AM TO LIVE ON IT FOR FOUR MONTHS? I wrote to her two days ago, and I don't think I would like to write again.

Hinojosa built her profile as one of the most persistent critics of Abbott's school voucher program, and she launched her campaign in the Rio Grande Valley, a region where Democrats have been hemorrhaging Latino support.

She won her March primary outright with 58.5% against a nine-candidate field.

Her pitch is kitchen table.

healthcare costs, affordability, and public schools, framed as a fight against, in her words, billionaires and corporations.

You know, I was named superintendent in Madison in February.

Well, it was March by the time it was publicly announced.

So March of 2024.

Okey.

And I was in another city.