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RETROSPECT.
After having stated my views respecting the management, inward discipline and building of the prisons, it remains to render, briefly, the reform in question clear, as well with regard to its leading features as to the expenses.
We suppose, as a starting point, that the Phila- delphian system, calculated on the complete separation of the prisoners, ought to form the foundation for all radical improvement in prison discipline; for that system is the most efficacious means, hitherto known, of uniting the possible improvement of the prisoner with his effectual punishment.
As experience has not, however, yet determined, in a manner fully to be relied on, whether the principle of solitude can be extended above 6 years, without endangering the prisoner’s health, the Pbi- ladelphian discipline ought, at first, to be applied only to those criminals who have been condemned to one of the three lowest degrees of penal-labour, supposing the proposed reduction of j of the time appointed by the new criminal-law to be adopted (see page 109).
Those condemned to a longer period of labour ought, consequently, for the present, to be treated according to the Auburn system, which, notwithstanding all its deficiences, is nevertheless far
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