"Report of Joint Committee to Enquire into the Treatment of Convicts Employed in the Mines, and on Convict Farms, and in Any Other Places in the State."

Overall, the committee gives a positive report: ". . . we found the convicts, as a general rule, were not harder worked than was consistent with humanity, that they were well and warmly clad and shod, were served with a sufficient amount of wholesome diet and were kindly and humanely treated.&q...

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