text:  And what has been the result? Why that it has been now demonstrated by experience that even the longest imprisonments and the best system of prison discipline have no effect or scarce any in reclaiming offenders; and that the only effect of the new system has been to crowd the jails with convicts and the streets with thieves; to load the counties with assessments and the calendars with prisoners; to starve New South Wales for want of compulsory labour and oppress Great Britain by the redundance of hardened idleness