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of the object depends, in a great measure, on their
zealous assistance.
The society should be formed by districts,
but have a central-committee in the capital, in
order to afford a common point of action and
unity of exertion.
Another means of awakening more sympathy
for prison discipline is, to introduce into those parts
which affect its leading results a greater degree of
publicity than has before been the case. An
annual report ought to be made and published by
the direction of every prison, stating the effects
which the strict penitentiary discipline can have,
as well on the prisoners’ state of health, as their
moral improvement, the expense of their
maintenance, work done, the financial state of the
establishment &c.
In this way the public will be informed of
the nature and effects of the punishments adopted;
clearer views will be gained, and the present, so
reasonable dread of liberated prisoners, by degrees
disappear. A great competition will also arise
among the different local-authorities, and exertions
as well official as private will by publicity gain a
new encouragement and a worthy reward.
Having tried to arrange the leading grounds
for the direction and general management of
prisons, it remains to determine, more nearly, their
division within the kingdom, and their inward
organisation.
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