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The increased power and the mutual assistance which labour in common offers, are no longer to he calculated on. When the prisoners are shut up each in his cell, more than one person’s power cannot any where be developed. The individuals are here to be considered as units, which may not be added together to form a sum.
Against this indisputable difficulty there is but one counterpoise, namely, the division of labour. This me)bod, which, even in other undertakings, ought always to be employed as far as possible, on account of the rapidity and order which are gained by it, becomes absolutely necessary in a prison arranged according to the cell-system. In this way the prisoners, separated from each other, may nevertheless work to one common end, when they are entrusted with any of the peculiar preparations, which the raw material requires in the course of its manufacture. It will also be easier to estimate the work of each prisoner separately, and to award to every one the reward he merits.
But it is not sufficient thus to prepare goods, steps must also be taken for the sale of such as are manufactured. By this means tlie expenses of the stale may, at least to some extent, be made good, and an opportunity afforded to the prisoner during his confinement to gain something by his work, which, although but trifling in the majority of cases, is, nevertheless, if well applied, of great utility when ihe prisoner is liberated. Here arises,
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