Excerpt from Committee on Labour Centres: Report on Labour ColoniesDuring the year 1891-92 55 have gone to Elevators, and 22 to Hadleigh Farm. The remainder have been provided for by their friends, or have left The Bridge of their own accord 31 proved absolutely refractory.Criminal types predominated. One old man was a conspicuous exception. A boy of about eleven, with a typically thievish face, was described as being excessively mischievous. He had stolen a cash-box.Some cases have been sent to The Bridge by the magistrates. A few of these were cases of juvenile delinquency.Friends of prisoners about to be released ask the S. A. Prison Gate Brigade to look after them on release.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.