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Only male criminals are considered in this project, excepting at the prisons for confinement during trial. The men being the most numerous and the most dangerous to the public security, those means which can be applied to the improvement of the prisons, ought in the first place to be employed in preparing safe places of custody, and the possibility of efficiently applying in the prisons for males, a discipline which may tend both to punishment and improvement. It may also be mentioned as a farther reason, that greater order has prevailed in the prisons for females, and the expenses have generally been less. I consider, therefore, that, with the exception of some few alterations which may perhaps be necessary, the above mentioned prisons should be retained in their present condition, till the prisons for the males are completed, when the penitentiary system ought to be extended to the females also, according to the views developed in this chapter.
Respecting the above mentioned important charge, of preparing the reception of the liberated prisoners again into society, a feeling of morality degenerated to implacability ought not to repulse bis contrition, or suppress his good intentions, but his return to evil must be prevented by his being enabled to obtain honest employment. Here is an extensive field for communal and private exertion.
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