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have returned, after liberation, to renewed
punishment.”
These words, uttered by an enlightened
philanthropist at the close of a long and virtuous
course of life, are a comfort, which the friend of
humanity needs, in order not to become weary in
his noble exertions, when he so often sees his hopes
disappointed; they form a valuable encouragement
to those who are trying to remove the hindrances
to a thorough reform in the houses of correction.
According to the same principles that have
been followed in Gloucester, the prison or so called
Bridewell, with 265 separate cells, was built in
Glasgow in 1824. Here also the happiest results
have been obtained, with regard to the prisoners’
health, industry and determent from new crimes.
The same cause of ruin, however, threatens this
prison as in Gloucester; for although the number
of cells has been increased to 274, they have
sometimes been obliged, within the last few years, to
place 400 prisoners there. According to the report
delivered to the Minister for the home department,
by M:r Frederick Hill, Inspector General of the
Scottish prisons, they had, already in 1838, began
to think seriously of enlarging the prison.
But we return to North America. The
Auburn system soon attracted the public attention,
and the discipline calculated on separate sleeping
cells, and work in common under perfect silence,
was by degrees introduced into most prisons.
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