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forgery; had been imprisoned a year; health good.
This young man showed much pleasure at seeing
us. It could be seen that solitude was for him a
dreadful punishment, and that he, more than the
others, felt the necessity of communicating his
thoughts and impressions. He could not restrain
his tears, when he spoke to us of his parents.
Ques. I see that this punishment has had a great
effect upon you. Do you. think that it is at least
improving? Ans. Yes, sir; and I find this prison
much better than others. It would; be more
terrible for me, to live in company with other
offenders, than to be alone. It is impossible to be
here, without being brought to reflection.
Beaumont and Tocqueville observe, that the
minds of the prisoners have in general taken a
deeply religious turn, and that most of them shed
tears, when they spoke of their position, and their
guilt. At the house of correction in Westminster
the prisoners said, they prefered being a quarter
of a year in a prison where they worked together,
even with, the strictest silence, to one month in
solitude.
Imprisonment in solitary cells has also been
tried in England as a military punishment, and
has given very satisfactory results. The chief of
the King’s regiment wrote, in. 1827, the following
letter to the superintendent of the house of
correction at Glasgow, arranged according to the
Philadelphian system.
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