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both be attended to with sympathy, his repentance led to a useful improvement, not to despair, every sign of return to that which is good, be met with kindness and encouragement. But great care must be taken not to make his situation, by a foolish indulgence, better than that of his equals who have not violated the laws; by so doing an injustice is committed towards the latter, and punishment is changed to a dangerous encouragement. A decided difference must consequently be made between a Christian sympathy for the possible restoration of the fallen criminal, and a mistaken zeal for his physical convenience and enjoyments. Otherwise we do homage to a deceitful chemira under the name of philanthropy.
The punishment for the violation of the prison discipline, must immediately and unavoidably follow the transgression. Corporal-punishment ought to be completely banished from a well managed prison, arranged according to the Philadelphian system. This is of importance, and its observance ought to be most strictly adhered to. The punishments should consist of a decrease in the food, bread and water, confinement in a dark cell, and the loss, for a longer or shorter period, of all employment. This latter punishment is, according to the assertions of the prisoners themselves, the most painful, for it is one among the great and invaluable consequences of solitary imprisonment, that labour, which had before been the
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