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expenses of the state, but it is also a necessary condition for the support of the discipline, for one can easily imagine the disorder that would unavoidably arise from such an assemblage of unemployed criminals. When the prisoners can be employed together, there arises a great power of labour, which again gives an opportunity for entering into many useful undertakings, either in the way of manufactures or public buildings. The establishment may consequently be placed with advantage, where some considerable undertaking is to be executed, and where stone-cutting may be conducted on an extensive scale. In the latter case Borgholm would be very suitable for the purpose, also by that means to separate the criminals from the continent. Already in 1817 there was a question of this, which was submitted to the examination of a committee, in which the Minister of Justice for the time being was president; the subject was, however, afterwards forgotten, and the houses of correction in Malmö and on Långholmen were arranged instead.
A sparing in the expense of building might be calculated on if the Auburn prison were arranged in some of our present houses of correction where there are already cells, namely, at Långholmen 144 and at Malmö 28. Besides these, about 300 altogether, retaining the necessary workshops, may be arranged at Långholmen if the present lodgements, and the rooms over the church were
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