It is Never Too Late to Mend Chapter XXIII

In which Mr. Hawes, undeterred by a prisoner's suicide, intensifies his harsh discipline and sets about punishing those who defy his authority, even as the chaplain and an observant justice take note of the cruelty endured by certain inmates. Amidst this grim spectacle, the visiting justices perform their inspections with contrasting discernment, while the chaplain offers a flicker of compassion to a condemned prisoner facing the dreaded black hole.