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of Gloucester was built in 1790 according to their
plan. This was supplied with separate cells, in
which the prisoners were shut up night and day,
and kept completely from each other during the
whole period of imprisonment. This system was
continued for 17 years. It was afterwards deviated
from only on account of the increase in the
number of inmates; there was not sufficient room in
the prison, so that by degrees several prisoners
were placed in the same cell. In 1820 they were
obliged to crowd 352 prisoners into 180 cells. Thus
it became impossible to maintain the required
discipline. M:r George Paul, in 1819, delivered the
following report to the committee appointed by
the house of Commons: “Although I must allow,
with several other theorists, that I, on the whole,
expected more than has been gained, this has,
nevertheless, not been the case with the institution
in question. It has, during its first years of trial,
given results far exceeding the hopes entertained
by either the founders or myself. I know that
many, who have left this prison, have succeeded
in gaining their living by honest labour. I have
paid particular attention to this institution during
the last seventeen years of its existence, and have
always found its inmates orderly, obedient and
submitting patiently to their fate. I have,
consequently, every reason to believe, that their morals
have been improved by the discipline observed,
and during the above mentioned period, very few
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