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been referred to the decision of a higher, must depend on what room there may be, and on other local circumstances. It would be best, in order to avoid unnecessary transport, if the prisoner could remain within the district prison till the final judgment is determined, unless the prison, to which he should be moved, lay in the way to that house of correction where he, in case the judgment be confirmed, should go through the punishment appointed.
It would also be desirable, that fines and. penalties for the benefit of the court, might be paid by labour in the district prison. By this means both loss of time would be avoided for the individual, and no inconsiderable expense for the public. It happens now, not unfrequently, that a person, condemned to pay some very trifling fine, which he is, however, unable to command, must, in consequence of the fine being changed to a few days imprisonment, travel several miles to the county jail, by which many days’ labour are lost, and an expense for transport and watching arises, often many times groater than the fine adjudged.
Hence we see, that the proper enlargement and so highly necessary improvement of the temporary prisons, would have particularly beneficial consequences, not only in a moral, but also in a financial point of view. From this latter ground may also be taken another reason for the state’s contributing, as proposed above, to the building and arranging of these prisons.
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