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those unhappy beings who are just entering the
path of vice, from old and hardened offenders;
because the contagious interchange of ideas, which
produces, within our prisons, a continued and
increasing corruption, can only in this way be
efficiently prevented.
That this system is in the highest degree
applicable for those individuals, whose improvement
is considered possible, and who, after having gone
through their punishment, are again to enter society.
That all district, county and other places
of confinement during trial, houses of correction
and jails, within which prisoners condemned for a
certain period are shut up, ought to be supplied
with cells, and arranged according to the
Pensylvanian solitary principle.
That the Auburn system seems on the
contrary to be applicable only in proportion as the
prisoner’s improvement is despaired of (for instance
such as have returned several times, or have
already been exposed, for a considerable time, to
the deep demoralisation of our present prisons),
and for those, who are condemned for a longer
period than that for which it is at present
considered the solitary principle can be applied, without
endangering the prisoner’s health.
The possibility of applying these principles
within our own country, will be the subject of the
next chapter.
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