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in the outward signs of repentance and altered
principles, for his long experience had taught him,
that the only proof of a prisoner’s sincerity, which
could be depended on, is, that he does not long
to leave the prison.
M:r Aylies proposes, as a medium, that those
who are condemned for life ought not to receive
any remission till after twenty years imprisonment,
and that there ought not to be any question of
shortening the period of confinement for those who
are condemned only to five years and under.
The new law-project proceeds from about
the same point of view, as it is said in the
motives Chap. 2 of the Penal-division: "That, when
the prisoner has gained a good character for
industry and obedience to the regulations appointed
at the establishment, and in other respects shown
such proofs of an improved disposition of mind,
that there is reason for a diminution in the time
of confinement, the direction should report the
same to the king, on whose pleasure the exercise
of the right of pardon depends.
To prevent, however, the prisoners’ being able,
by a pretended improvement, to obtain too early
a remission, the regulation has been considered
necessary, that an application for pardon ought
not to be made, before fifteen years have passed
for him who has been condemned to the first
degree of punishment, or three fourths of the term
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