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would be united with this, in thus playing with the exertions of human beings, the expense of the prisoners’ support would, without any mitigation, be so much heavier for the state.
From the above mentioned various demands on the nature of the labour, it can in the moan time be concluded, that the prisoners ought, in the first place, to be employed with such things as are necessary for their own use and for the prison, by which means the state gains a no inconsiderable advantage, without any question of selling the goods; and with such manufactures as are either imported from abroad, or are produced at home in but trifling quantities.
The prisoners ought consequently to be employed chiefly in preparing what is necessary for the prison itself, as carpenter’s work, spinning, weaving, and making clothes, shoes &c. These latter articles are not of triflng importance, for in 1838 the expense for the clothing of each prisoner at Långholmen amounted to 17 R:dr 15 sk. B:co (nearly 26 shillings); if to this be added the expense for beds and other necessaries, there arises a considerable field for labour.
The choice of the work intended for sale ought to be left to every local administration, to decide according to the peculiar circumstances of the place, and in agreement with the above views. If, for instance, a home manufacture supplies a certain district with employment, it would be wrong to
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