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all dangerous criminals, without silencing the voice
of humanity, and should thus fulfil the demands
as well of justice as of prudence. A closer
examination, however, soon shows the faults in a
judicial point of view, and the great difficulties with
which the idea of transportation is encumbered.
I will endeavour briefly to represent the most
important.
What class of criminals ought to be subjected
to transportation? They who are condemned to
lose their freedom for life; but then their number
will be trifling. They who are condemned for a
certain number of years; but how will they be
able to return from a distant part of the world
to their native country; and if they succeed in
doing so, they are by no means improved from
having, in company with numerous fellow
criminals, sailed over the ocean and visited foreign lands.
It is then indeed less expensive to send them, as
hitherto, by prison-conveyance to Långholmen or
Malmö, in order, at the expiration of the term of
imprisonment, to cast them, as little corrected, again
into society.
It will probably be objected, that it is just
this fiction of condemning criminals to
transportation for a certain given time, when in fact they
are subjected to an eternal banishment, which forms
the real security of the state. But then, surely, the
legislature has grievously committed itself against
the acknowledged principle of justice, that the
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