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you are going through? Ans. If any punishment
can force a man to self-examination and
improvement, it is without doubt this.
N:o 22. A negro, 32 years old; condemned
the second time for theft. Had sat eighteen months
in a cell; good health. Question. Do you find
this imprisonment as difficult to bear, as it is said
to be? Ans. It depends on the prisoner’s state of
mind. If he does not properly comprehend
solitude, he will fall into a slate of melancholy; if,
on the other hand, he knows how to value its
advantages, it will no longer be so unbearable.
Ques. You have been confined once before in.
Walnut Street? Ans. Yes, and one cannot
imagine a more dreadful hotbed for vice and crime.
A few days there, are sufficient to change a
moderate delinquent to a hardened villain.
N:o 52. Thirty nine years old; condemned
for the second time; had been in prison one year;
good health. The prison in Walnut Street is a
terrible place, said he, one cannot leave it improved.
Had I come here immediately, I should certainly
never have committed the second crime. Ques.
How do you find solitude? Ans. It appeared
dreadful to me at first, though I have by degrees
accustomed myself to it. Without work, however, I
could not bear this punishment; for without labour
there is no sleep.
N:o 110. Twenty five years old; belonged
to the more respectable class; condemned for
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