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advantageous circumstances, to calculate on any balance in his favour. If the state receive compensation for the prisoner’s food, it seems not too much to expect, that it should bear the other expenses. The prisoner’s possible gain will, at all events, be very trifling, for when the prison allowance amounts generally to 6 sk. a day, (about two pence), this makes for 365 days, 45 R:dr 30 sk. (about 3 £ 10 s.). If on the other hand we reckon 3 :0 days’ work at 8 skill, nett gain, which is probably the highest medium that can be taken, there arises a gain of 50 R:dr, which, after the value of the food is deducted, leaves an annual surplus of 4 R:dr 18 sk. (about 6 shillings).
The prisoner may not, during his confinement, dispose of any part whatever of his earnings. All encouragement to work by the promise of better food and so on, ought also to be strictly forbidden. The money is put into the savings-bank in the prisoner’s name. When he is liberated he receives a part of it to enable him to return home; the rest is sent to the clergyman of his parish, to be given to him as he needs it.
One question, respecting which the learned in the law, and those who have great experience in the management of the Penitentiary system, are still undecided, is, whether the hope of an abridgement of the term of confinement ought to be placed among those spurs, which should be used for the improvement of the prisoner. The subject must
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