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thrown into cells. At Malmö the number of cells could also be doubled, but as a very considerable alteration in the buildings must be made, any exact statement cannot at present be given.
For my part I think the latter measure preferable, for as the Auburn system ought to be left in proportion as experience warrants a more extensive application of solitary confinement, it were not judicious to go to great expenses for the erection of buildings, according to the New-York principle.
The superintendence of this prison ought to be given to a separate direction composed according to those grounds which I shall state farther on. For every 20 prisoners a keeper is appointed, and 4 or 5 besides as a reserve in case of sickness or other hindrance. There ought also to be two or three jailers, according to the nature of the building.
With regard to the number of Philadelphian cells, the following calculation may be made with tolerable certainty.
For the 57 persons condemned to the third degree of punishment, after a medium of 5 years for each or half the period of punishment . . 285.
For the 157 individuals condemned to the fourth degree, according to an imprisonment calculated on this principle of 3 years for each, 471.
With regard to the fifth degree we have the following relations:
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