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care of for him during the time. Thus greater
order and cleanliness are gained within the
establishment, and the much heavier expense is spared,
of supplying the prisoner with necessary clothes
when he leaves. That there may be exceptions
in this respect if the prisoner’s clothes are too
miserable, is of course taken for granted.
The dress should in the summer consist of
some simple stuff which can be washed, in the
winter of gray homespun cloth.
Every prisoner receives a mattress and pillow,
stuffed with straw, sheets and a quilt.
One question still remains to be discussed,
on which the whole inward life of the establishment
depends, namely the employment of the
prisoners. Without this the tenderest care of the
prisoners’ moral improvement is fruitless, the strictest
domestic discipline insufficient, and all grants of
money to be considered as a dead and useless
capital. To this many will answer: “the prisoners
should work of course;” but this kind wish is not
so easily executed as pronounced. The subject is
of importance and demands ati especial examination.
In the first place must be considered the choice
of the work itself. It must supply the prisoner
with an employment which is constant and suited
to his powers, and may at the same time exercise
his abilities. This latter object may be gained,
either by teaching the prisoner a simple trade, in
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