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of punishment for other prisoners, and that should not take place unless these three fourths amounted to one year."
Although I, for my own part, entertain much doubt as to the utility of these pardonings, as well with regard to their influence on the improvement of the prisoner, as their effects in general, after a more rational theory of punishment has been a- dopted, and I should consequently be inclined to limit it to the first degree of punishment, after the expiration of fifteen years, 1 nevertheless do not intend to oppose the above mentioned authorities, and only wish that the abridgement of the term of imprisonment may be granted as sparingly as possible, and after the most careful examination.
The directions of all the prisons for penal- labour, ought, within a given time, to deliver annually to the Department of Justice (Justitie-De- partementet), a complete and detailed report on the management of the prisons, the principal results, financial position, such remarks as the penitentiary treatment may lead to, the prisoners’ state of health, how they have conducted themselves, how employed &c. These reports should be arranged according to given formules, in order that a comparison may be made between them. They ought to be printed, and distributed with the news-papers.
In all the prisons of the kingdom a journal should be kept of the prisoners’ age, birth-place,
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