Excerpt from Notes on the Employment of Convicts in Connection With Road BuildingIn other Southern States where the convict-lease system, with all its objectionable features, still prevails, it is clear that a transfer of the prisoners from irresponsible and often inhumane private employ to the care of States or counties would be a sav ing kindness to them, while it would wipe out a public disgrace and benefit the entire community.Some of the apprehensions of the New York Prison Association do not appear to have been well founded.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.