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(1842) [MARC] Author: Oscar I Translator: Alfred May
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which the real manufacture is carried on by him alone; or by employing the labour of the prisoner in factory work, when it ought to be so culculated and changed, as to enable the prisoner to obtain a certain degree of skill which he can afterwards employ when free, in several trades connected with his former occupation.

Nor must the work require expensive materials, through the spoiling of which too great a loss might arise, for we must not at first expect any great ability for work in the prisoner. A prison has certainly so far the advantage over a common work-house, that it is seldom troubled with any inmates who are incapable of working either from sickness or age, because the criminals are generally in the prime of life, and often endowed with a lively disposition and quick apprehension. But it must not, on the other hand, be forgotten, that they loathe all steady employment, which has generally been the cause of their fall, and consequently have neither the habit of working nor the ability, which they must first obtain by degrees under the direction of a person who understands the employment, after the uniformity and weariness of solitude have exercised a wholesome preparative influence.

The choice of suitable employment is rendered more difficult even than heretofore, in consequence of the leading principle of the Pensylvanian system, of strictly separating the prisoners from each other.

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