text:  The food of all classes of criminals is the same whatever the offence and consists of twenty-four ounces of bread with half-a-pint measure of beans and some oil--a basin of cabbage soup without meat for dinner and meat once in fourteen days: there are eight thousand out-of-doors convicts many of whom being under sentence for a less space _than two years_ work in their own clothes--which is of course a considerable saving to government