Excerpt from Our Convicts, Vol. 2 I was appointed Chairman of the Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland under the Act of the 17th and 18th Victoria, in 1854. In 1853 I was on a Commission of Convict Inquiry in Ireland, and for some years previous to that, as a County Magistrate in England, I had given great attention and con sideration to the subject of the treatment Of criminals generally, and the prevention Of crime. I mention this to the Committee to show that any Opinion which I may give is not alone derived from my Official connection with the subject. 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.