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A possibility, as important in a financial point of view, as it is happy when considered by the eye of humanity, of decreasing the period of imprisonment through the deeply efficacious severity of the Philadelphian system, ought not to be forgotten here, and D:r Julius founds, on this, the following remarkable calculation: “A house of correction according to the Auburn system,” he says, “costs 2/3 the sum which one, built according to the Pensylvanian plan, would cost; I take for instance 200 Auburn cells at 100 Thaler each, or together 20,000 Th:lr, and the same number of Philadelphian at 150 Th:Ir making 30,003 Th:lr. In these 200 Auburn cells only 600 criminals can, in the course of 15 years, undergo a punishment of five years5 but in the 200 Pensylvanian cells, which admit of a decrease in the time of punishment of from 5 to 3 years*), 1000 prisoners may be placed during the same 15 years. The interest of the original Capital amounts yearly at Auburn to 1000, at Philadelphia to 1,500 Th:lr or, during 15 years, to 15000 and 22,500 Th:lr, which sum divided by the number of prisoners confined during the time mentioned, makes for each at Auburn 25, but at
*) In support of this supposition, which is rather less than more than the truth, I must cite the following testimony of Senator Hudtwalker, under whose direction the Hamburgh police is placed: “According to my experience, two months solitary imprisonment, with bread and water during the first and last fortnight, are quite as effective as 6 months bridewell, even with the observance of strict silence.
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