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Morning Star
Limerick, York County, Maine
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In his message, the Massachusetts Governor discusses the chaplain's investigation at Charlestown State Prison, revealing that intemperance led 156 of 250 convicts to crime, 182 neglected the Sabbath, 83 lacked employment, 68 were truants, and many were illiterate, highlighting links between ignorance, vice, and law-breaking.
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The Governor of Massachusetts in his Message, says of the State Prison at Charlestown:
--A most destructive result is also produced by the curious and critical investigations of the chaplain into the character and lives of these miserable men. Of 250 convicts whom his inquiries respected, he ascertained that 156 were led by intemperance to the commission of the offences for which they suffer; that 182 of the first mentioned number had lived in the habitual neglect of the Sabbath; 83 were permitted to grow up from infancy without any regular employment; 68 had been truants to their parents, while in their minority; 61 could not write, and many were wholly unable to read.
The intimate connexion and association of ignorance with vice, of dissoluteness with outrage upon the laws, are here distinctly traced.
Juvenile Rambler.
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Charlestown, Massachusetts
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The Governor reports on the chaplain's investigations into 250 convicts at the State Prison, finding 156 led to offenses by intemperance, 182 neglected the Sabbath, 83 grew up without employment, 68 were truants to parents, 61 could not write, and many could not read, tracing connections between ignorance, vice, and law-breaking.