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the trouble taken and the money laid out are thrown
away, the demands of humanity only hall satisfied,
and the public safety as dangerously threatened
as before.
Those noble philanthropists, who began to pay
attention to the unhappy condition of their fallen
brethren, at first applied their zealous exertions in
mitigating their sufferings, supplying their physical
wants, and attending to their health, which was
destroyed in consequence of their wretchedness and
the unwholesome prisons. When the demands of
compassion had been satisfied, attention was given to
their moral improvement; there still remains one
step in order to gain the object aimed at: the care
of the prisoner’s first faltering steps on the path
of honesty and duty.
Private societies have already been formed in
several countries for obtaining, for liberated
prisoners, not alms, but work, service, in a word the
possibility of supporting themselves honestly.
If we consider the immediate effect of the
correction systems on the condition of the liberated
prisoner, we shall find, that the Pensylvanian
discipline possesses a decided advantage over the Auburn.
That, which is most to be feared for him who
leaves the prison after having gone through his
punishment, is, next to reprobateness and poverty,
the dangerous acquaintances he has formed among
his unhappy comrades. They generally betray his
former disgrace, and often induce him, either by
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