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Without wishing to determine any rate of salary, I think it right nevertheless, to state, as a guide, those conditions which appear to me suitable.
The superintendent from 12 to 1500 R:dr B:co.
Jailers the same as the 1:st class at the county-jails.
Under-jailers half a R:dr B:co a day.
house-room, candles and firing.
After 10 years’ faithful service the salary is increased with 50 p.c. and after 20 years they ought, if dismissed, to receive half of the salary for their support. The same advantages should also be granted " to the prison keepers at the county-jails.
By means of these conditions, which are nevertheless not extravagant, we may hope to obtain able and trustworthy officers in our prisons, which is of great importance in a house of correction.
The domestic discipline should be strict but just, not unreasonable in its claims, but inflexible in enforcing an exact compliance with them. The prisoner must feel deeply that he is undergoing a well deserved punishment as an atonement for the crimes he has committed, he must feel the whole weight of the power of the law which he has despised and transgressed. Rudeness, sloth and insolence, these most common faults in the criminal, require this warning and deterring experience, to be brought to reflection and selfexamination. The moral and physical health of the prisoner must
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