[Gutenberg 33631] • The Story of a Strange Career: Being the Autobiography of a Convict / An Authentic Document

Excerpt from The Story of a Strange Career, Being the Autobiography of a Convict: An Authentic Document

The story that follows this introduction is literally true. There died lately, in a Western State prison, a man of the class known as habitual criminals. He was, at the time of his death, serving out a sentence for burglary. For thirty years he had been under the weight of prison discipline, save for short periods of freedom between the end of one term and the be ginning of another.