Every child is confined to its cell for twenty-three hours out of the twenty-four.

This is the appalling thing.

To shut up a child in a dimly lit cell for twenty-three hours out of the twenty-four is an example of the cruelty of stupidity.
If an individual, parent or guardian, did this to a child, he would be severely punished....
"The second thing from which a child suffers in prison is hunger.

The food that is given to it consists of a piece of usually badly baked prison bread and a tin of water for breakfast at half past seven.

At twelve o'clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout, and at half past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin of water for its supper.