Walls and Bars

1927. The book is dedicated To the countless thousands of my brothers and sisters who have suffered the cruel and pitiless torture and degradation of imprisonment in the jails, penitentiaries and other barbarous and brutalizing penal institutions of capitalism under our much-vaunted Christian civilization, and who in consequence now bear the ineffaceable brand of convicts and criminals, this volume is dedicated with affection and devotion by one of their number. Contents: The Relation of Society to the Convict; The Prison as an Incubator of Crime; I Become U.S. Convict, No. 9653; Sharing the Lot of Les Miserables; Transferred From My Cell to the Hospital; Visitors and Visiting; The 1920 Campaign for President; A Christmas Eve Reception; Leaving the Prison; General Prison Conditions; Poverty Populates the Prison; Creating the Criminal; How I Would Manage the Prison; Capitalism and Crime; Poverty and the Prison; Socialism and the Prison; Leaving the Prison; Prison Labor, Its Effects on Industry and Trade; Studies Behind Prison Walls; and Wasting Life.