SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS 
Goyaz was the prison. I visited it in the company of the 
Chief of Police. The place had been specially cleaned 
on the occasion of my visit, and that particular day it 
looked quite neat. I was shown very good food which — 
at least that day — had been prepared for the prisoners. 
Nearly all the prisoners were murderers. “ But the biggest 
criminals of all,” said the Chief of Police to me, “ are not 
inside this prison; they are outside!” The poor devils 
inside were mere wretches who had not been able to bribe 
the judges. 
Curiously enough, petty theft was considered a shame 
in the Province of Goyaz, and was occasionally severely 
punished; whereas murderers were usually set free. I 
saw a poor negro there who had stolen a handful of beans 
and had been sent to five years’ penal servitude, while 
others who had killed were merely sentenced to a few 
months’ punishment. In any case, no one in Brazil can 
be sentenced to more than thirty years’ detention, no 
matter how terrible the crime he has committed. 
The display of police guarding the prison was some¬ 
what excessive. There were fifty policemen to guard 
fifty prisoners: policemen standing at each door, police¬ 
men at each corner of the building, while a swarm of them 
occupied the front hall. The various common cells were 
entered by trap doors in the ceiling, of great height, and 
by a ladder which was let down. Thus escape was 
rendered improbable, the iron bars of the elevated 
windows being sounded every morning and night for 
further safety. 
The sanitary arrangements were of the most primitive 
kind, a mere bucket in a corner serving the needs of eight 
or ten men in each chamber. 
As there was no lunatic asylum in Goyaz, insane 
people were sent to prison and were kept and treated like 
criminals. 
I noticed several interesting cases of insanity: it 
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