Excerpt from A Study of Wage-Payment to Prisoners as a Penal Method: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy; Department of Sociology in the Graduate Divinity School There are several features of prison administration in which im provement seems to be possible. Mr. T. M. Osborne, formerly war den of Sing Sing prison, makes nine counts against the present sys tem of prison management. One of these deals with the compensation of prisoners. He says that the present system of prison labor is ill-organized and inefficient and lacks any incentive to honest, hard work. 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.