Ebook Ups and Downs of a Crook's Life

IT was while serving the last days of my five years' sentence in Clinton Prison, that I began to think of what I could do to earn an honest living after I should once more be a free man. No one who has not worn the prison uniform can realize how almost impossible it is for a man with the brand of an ex convict upon him to find employment. The curse of the penitentiary is upon him, and it pursues him with relentless energy wherever he turns.