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prisoners are in the day time, refectories and a chapel. Round the workshops runs a passage, from which one can watch the prisoners without being seen by them. A high wall, along which a gallery is placed for the centinels, surrounds the whole.
The Pensylvanian prisons consist of separate buildings, issuing from a common centre, where the keepers’ room is situated, and from which all the separate passages can be seen. The cells are also here arranged in two rows, but separated by a gallery and supplied with windows towards the outside, to alFord sufficient light for the prisoner while working in his cell. Their size is as follows: length 13½ feet; breadth 9 feet; height about 10½ feet.
In Philadelphia to every cell on the ground- floor is attached a little yard, 9 feet broad and 15 feet long, where the prisoner is allowed, occasionally, to breathe the fresh air. It is, however, considered , that this might be avoided, at least when the time of imprisonment is not calculated to last more than three years.
As the prisoner is constantly in his cell, neither workshop, refectory nor chapel is necessary.
When divine service is performed, the clergyman places himself in the passage and the doors are placed ajar; every cell has, besides, a grating which remains locked. It is said to be as melancholy as it is solemn, to hear the preacher’s warning voice address the invisible congregation, whose
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