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number of workmen in North America, and the
exceedingly high wages arising from that
circumstance, render such a gain possible, which cannot
be calculated on under other circumstances.
Besides which it must also be recollected, that it is
unjust towards free tradesmen, that the state itself
establishes extensive manufactories, carried on with
a labour which costs but little, and where the
selling price of the article produced can be so
considerably decreased, when every income, how little
soever it may be, is nevertheless a gain, as the
criminals condemned by the law must, at all events,
be supported at the public expense.
At Cherry-hill, on the contrary, the expenses
have exceeded the income:
1834 by 6,524 Doll. Expense of each prisoner 37,91 Doll.
1835 — 10,968 — — — — 41,06 —
1836 — 8,165 — — — — 27,01 —
That the proportion between the expenses is
not always in favour of the Auburn system, but
depends on different circumstances, is seen by
observing, for instance, that at the Auburn prison
at Coldbath-fields, in 1836 each prisoner cost 8
pence a day, or nearly 12 £ 4 s. a year; while
at the Philadelphian institution at Ayr, the prisoner
cost only 8 £ yearly; at Glasgow in 1837, 3 £
17 s.; in 1838, 2 £.
The prisoners ought in the first place to be
employed in making what is necessary for their
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