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There are two ways of arranging the work at a house of correction, or other public establishment for labour, namely; to prepare and lead every thing referring to it by the Administration’s or Direction’s own care, or also, to farm the labour of the prisoner by contract to any private person. The first way has certainly that difficulty, that the administration will have an increase in their duties, will be obliged to keep large stocks, and must often experience losses, which in the latter case can be avoided. The contract lias on the other hand essential fundamental faults, which completely counterbalance its advantages. The contractor, who endeavours, in the first place, to obtain the greatest possible profits, is not very zealous with regard to the prisoner’s moral improvement. In the division of labour he does not at all care about exercising the prisoner’s ability, but only to take advantage of his skill in some limited part of the whole manufacture; in a word he considers the prisoner as a wheel in the machinery, from which he is endeavouring to draw the greatest possible profit. Another dangerous consequence of farming out the work to a private man is, that one is obliged to let persons into the cells, who are quite strangers to the establishment.
In most foreign prisons and houses of correction, the superintendence of the labour is managed by contract, though under different forms, in order, in some degree at least, to try to avoid the
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