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This kind of cell will be called large cells.
In the first place we must consider the prisons for detention during examination, which deserve, especially in Sweden, a particular and very necessary attention. Humanity demands this care, for among the unhappy beings inclosed within these prisons, many are really innocent, nor may the others be considered less so, till the law has pronounced their judgement. Prudence also bids us not to mix old, hardened criminals with those who have just taken the first tottering steps on the path of vice, and not to expose idleness and levity to the contagious company of deep corruption. Even for the promotion of the object of the trial, the discovery of the truth, it is important to separate the accused; for experience shows, that many an upright confession has been withdrawn in consequence of advice and example given in prison, through which the trial is delayed, the expenses increased and the demands of justice disappointed.
The prisons used before trial ought consequently to be arranged according to the Philadel- phian system, with the careful separation of the prisoners from each other. With regard to the visits of relations and friends, they may depend on the nature of the accusation, and separate examination, for solitude must not here be considered as a punishment, but only as a means of preventing stubbornness and dangerous engagements.
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