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The inspection of the prisons for confinement before trial ought to be intrusted to a separate direction, consisting of the justice of the district, as president, the bailiff and two parishoners chosen for one year at a general meeting within the parish where the prison is situated. This direction delivers, every year to the county-prison-direction, a statement containing the number of the prisoners, the quality and cost of the food, the state of health, the number of those condemned and acquitted, &c.
Should this project be put into execution, the county-jails would not be so filled as they have hitherto been. They would then serve the following purposes: To be temporary prisons for the principal town where they are situated, and possibly for the nearest district; to lodge prisoners on their way from one place to another, and to receive the criminals of the county who are condemned to bread and water, simple imprisonment, or at most one year’s hard labour. The number of cells necessary for this purpose, which must depend on a general calculation, will be stated farther on, and a plan of the building given, together with an estimate of the expenses.
They ought to be supplied with cells, tho’ not of greater dimensions than those proposed for the prisons for confinement before trial. This arrangement is of consequence, in order to exclude all intercourse among the prisoners.
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