It is the duty of every religious woman to see that her fellow woman is not trampled down in degradation and vice, lower than her own sins would carry her, by the heel of her master in discipline. Let the prison doors be opened, and the inside of them exposed to the view of all. Knowledge awakens interest, and interest leads to action. If the people of this land could be roused to examine the subject, our prisons would soon be managed upon principles which would tend to the elevation of the wretched beings who now come out of them more degraded and hardened in the commission of crime than they go in. God grant that the day filled with such blessing for the poor convict, be not far distant! Transcriber's Notes: The following corrections which did not concern obvious printer errors have been made to the text: In the header for the second chapter ("At Night"), the number II. was added. "mammoth mouse" was "mammouth mouse". "aperture" was "apperture". "worrisome" was "worrysome". "awfullest" was "awfulest". "You ought to have pity on each other, if no one else has pity on you!": "one" was added. "As he went, he asked me to bring the No. 1 key.": "the" was added. "Don't be anxious, Ellen!": question mark replaced by exclamation mark. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman in Prison, by Caroline H. Woods