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These prisons ought to be situated near great towns, in order the more easily to obtain suitable persons Cor the municipal part of their management, and to be able to calculate on a more certain sale of the articles manufactured. They ought also to be so placed in the kingdom, that the transports may be shortened as much as possible.
I consider Stockholm, Gothenburg and Christianstad, as suitable places for this purpose.
The prisons for penal-labour ought to be built for the purpose, for according to experience and the testimony of skilful architects, all attempts fail to apply old buildings to this purpose, by altering the interior arrangements. The expense will be considerable and the object lost.
To determine the ground plan of the building and its careful execution, are very difficult questions. On these depends, in a great measure, the fulfilling of those expectations which have been, raised, respecting the improvement of the prisoners, and the certainty of confining individuals who are likely to disturb the peace of society. This latter circumstance is in two respects important, for, besides the new crimes which prisoners, who have escaped, are obliged to commit in order to gain a livelihood, which they cannot do in a lawful way, these exciting prospects of gaining their freedom, by some stratagem, weakens the deterring effect of the punishment on uneasy and unsettled tempers, who long for a dissolute life and changing adventures.
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