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different parts of the establishment, and of paying the necessary attention to the physical and moral care of the prisoners.
In order to take a useful medium in this respect, it appears to me that the following propositions ought to be made:
The county-prisons of Norrbotten, Westerbotten, Jemtland and Westernorrland, should be supplied with a sufficient number of both middling- and large-cells, in order to be able to receive such of their criminals, as are condemned to the two lowest degrees of punishment. Thus, on account of the extent and distance of these counties, long and to the state expensive transport to the prisons would be avoided, as well as great difficulties for the liberated, generally pennyless prisoner, in returning again to his home. The county-prison in Wisby ought likewise to be so arranged, that it could also have room for those criminals of Gothland, who are condemned to the two lowest degrees of punishment.
In order to avoid transporting those who are condemned for a short period, to any considerable distance, all the county-prisons of the kingdom even, almost all of which require repairing or rebuilding, might be so enlarged, that they could hold the prisoners condemned for one year or under.
According to these views 200 large-cells ought to be calculated for the four northern counties and Gothland, and about 800 middling cells for those
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