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In some countries it has been thought that the penitentiary system ought not to be applied, unless the period of confinement exceeded two years; because the correction treatment, had not, otherwise, a sufficient opportunity of exercising its beneficial influence. This view is, in my opinion, very incorrect, for it is just on the still uncorrupted mind, that reflection and solitude ought to act most efficiently. To limit the care of the improvement of the prisoners, to those only whose criminality has already been developed, were to postpone the application of those remedies, which might possibly, in the first stage, have proved decisive, till the sickness has taken a dangerous form.
A great abuse, which now exists both in our temporary- and county-prisons, is, that the providing of the prisoners’ food is left to the jailer. To tempt that person on whom the prisoners most depend, by the no trifling gain which may be obtained through the curtailing of the allowance of food, is indeed to place too much confidence in the former, and to show too little care for the latter. To this it is generally answered, that when the prison is visited by the higher authorities, the prisoners are asked whether they have received their right or not; but it is not difficult to see, that they seldom dare to speak the truth, by which they might possibly expose themselves to other disagreeables and even to ill treatment.
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