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First degree . . . for life.
Second degree . . . from 9 to 12 years inclusive.
Third degree . . . from 6 — 9 — —
Fourth degree . . . from 3 — 6 — —
Fifth degree . . . from 6 months to 3 years —
In the latter case:
First degree . . . from 15 to 20 years inclusive.
Second degree . . . from 9 — 13 — —
Third degree . . . from 6 — 9 — —
Fourth degree . . . from 3 — 6 — —
Fifth degree . . . from 6 months to 3 years —
(Imprisonment in the fortifications for life is put instead of capital punishment).
When the committee puhlished their work in 1832, the Philadelphian system in America was not yet tried, and was almost unknown in Europe; for this reason the calculations for the periods of imprisonment, and the regulations respecting the treatment of the prisoners, are founded, exclusively, on the Auburn system. In the statement made two years after, in consequence of some remarks made against the proposition, the Philadelphian system is certainly mentioned, according to the accounts which the committee had received from the lately published works of Mess:rs Beaumont and Tocqueville; but the strict application of the solitary principle at Cherry-hill, was nevertheless as yet but too little developed to be able to effect any change in the resolutions already formed.
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