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his childhood, or taught him, if his education has been entirely neglected. The instruction is given in the cells, or, to gain time, from the passage, through the opening in the cell-door. This latter method is applied with advantage at the house of correction established two years since in Paris for bad children, and criminals who are under age. The instruction is imparted by preference to the younger, and to those who show particular talent; it is calculated principally on the prisoner’s own application and on reading to the teacher, in order that the latter may have only to examine, correct the errors and appoint new lessons. In this way there may be sufficient time for the instruction. It ought properly to take up the holidays and those hours that are free from labour.
The prisoners’ food should be perfectly simple, but wholesome and sufficient. It should be suited to their sedentary way of life, and all spirits ought to be banished from the place. The food should be furnished by the direction in the most advantageous manner for the establishment. Neither the overseer nor any of the jailers ouglit, on any condition, to be allowed to interfere with it, but they should be controllers, and see that the prisoners have what is right.
Every prisoner is supplied with clothes. On his liberation he receives again those clothes which he had on his arrival, and which have been taken
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