The Twin Hells; a Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas And Missouri Penitentiaries

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John N. Reynolds was the author of: A Kansas Hell; or, Life in the Kansas Penitentiary (1889) and The Twin Hells: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries (1890). "The following pages treat of hell-A Kansas hell and a Missouri hell. Those who desire to peruse works that tell about Heaven only, are urged to drop this book and run. I was an inmate of the Kansas penitentiary for sixteen months, and make mention of what came under my own observation in connection with

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what I experienced. While an inmate of this prison I occupied cells at various times with convicts who had served terms in the Missouri prison. From these persons I gathered much useful material for my book. After my release I visited the Missouri penitentiary, and verified the statements of those criminals, and gathered additional material from the prison records and the officials. I have written chiefly for the youth of the country, but all ages will be deeply interested in the following pages. A large majority of the convicts are young men from sixteen to twenty-five years of age. They had no idea of the terrible sufferings of a convict life, or they surely would have resisted temptation and kept out of crime. "

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