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collected in the new house of correction, it became
impossible to exclude the less criminal from the
circles of the more hardened, whence arose a greater
corruption among the former, but no improvement
in the latter.
Similar houses of correction were, nevertheless,
by degrees introduced into the other states
of the Union, and since then in our quarter of the
world also,[1] but without greater success, for they
were all burdened with a vital fault — the mingling
of the prisoners. Under such circumstances no
improvement could be gained, humanity was
disappointed in its hopes, the state loaded with
considerable expenses without corresponding advantages,
and this mutual instruction in vice and crime, as
expensive as it was destructive, only gave new
nourishment to the evil, and soon spread its
consequences in a manner highly dangerous to the
public safety.
It was certainly considered possible to stop
the destructive contagion of the prisons, by a kind
of classification of the prisoners according to the
nature of the offence; but experience soon dispersed
this error. As this opinion has had, and still
possesses among us, many advocates, I will endeavour
to show its deficiencies and the impossibility of its
actual application.
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