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Fifth degree.
1:st time condemned for theft 992 individuals.
2:nd ditto ditto 65 —
other offences . . . . . 263 —
At a medium of 1 year, 1,320 cells.
Fourth degree. — — — — — — 157 ind.
At a medium of 3 years, 471 cells.
Third degree. — _ — — — — 57 ind.
At a medium of 5 years, 285 cells.
2,076 cells of large dimensions.
The number of cells, for the three above named degrees of punishment, being thus discovered, it remains to determine their distribution in the houses of correction.
One principle, the correctness of which cannot be denied, is to remove those individuals condemned to the loss of their freedom, as little as possible from the neighbourhood to which they belong. The application of the idea of centralisation for correctionists and prisoners, of which we have already so melancholy an experience, is united with great and unavoidable difficulties. If the moral contagion it carries with it can be avoided by the introduction of the cell-system, there remain nevertheless long and expensive transports, the moving of the prisoners from that neighbourhood
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