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Two of these must always be in motion in the
passages, having socks on their feet that they may
not be heard by the prisoners.
During the performance of every duty the
most perfect silence is observed, an instantaneous
execution of orders given exacted, and every thing
that can cause noise or other confusion carefully
avoided. The least neglect, the most trifling attempt
to communicate their thoughts either by whispering
or signs, is immediately punished without indulgence
by repeated blows of a whip on the naked
shoulders of the offender. The right of punishing
is extended to all the keepers; the number of blows
is not determined.
The women are not subjected to corporal
punishment, but arrest in cells, decrease in the
allowance of food &c.
On sunday the cells are cleaned, and the
prisoners receive clean linen and sheets. After breakfast
they go to the chapel and thence to the
Sunday-school, after which they are shut up in their
cells till the following day. Dinner is eaten in
the cells.
With some few exceptions the discipline is
the same in all the other houses of correction
arranged according to the Auburn system.
At Cherry-hill in Philadelphia the following
order is observed:
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