That men even unconsciously feel that punishment is wrong is shown by their attitude toward certain classes of society. A hangman would not be tolerated in a self-respecting body of men or women, and this has been the case for many years, in fact since men made a trade of butchering their fellow man. A professional hangman is really as much despised as any other professional murderer. A detective, jailer, policeman, constable and sheriff are not generally regarded as being subjects of envy by their fellows. Still none of these are as much responsible for their acts as the real rulers who make and execute the law. The time will come when the public prosecutor and the judge who sentences his brother to death or imprisonment will be classed with the other officers who lay violent and cruel hands upon their fellows. If the imprisonment of men tended to awe others into obedience to law, then the old ideas of penal servitude are the only ones that can be logically sustained. A prison should be the most horrible, grewsome, painful place that can be contrived. Physical torture should be a common incident of prison life. The victim himself is beyond the pale of society. His life should be used to aid the community by the frightful example: Dark dungeons, noxious smells, vermin, rats, the hardest, most constant toil, long terms of imprisonment, and the red mark to be branded on his brow, when he at last is turned loose to the light of day. Prisons should be open to the public, so that the old and young can constantly witness the terrible effects of crime. Prisons and jails should be in every community and in the most conspicuous place. The young should not be left to casually hear of public punishments or to imagine a penal institution. The living horrible example in all its loathsome, sickening details should be ever kept before their eyes. Most men now regard these public exhibitions of the malice of the state exactly as they now look on public hangings, as tending to degrade and debauch and harden the hearts of those who become familiar with the sight. But if the open sight and knowledge of a penal institution tends to degrade and harden the heart, then the secret, imperfect, covert knowledge produces the same effect only in less degree.