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with any hope of success, to set a limit to the
increasing poverty and immorality. It is only by
these powerful and united means, that the state
can radically cure the evil; but not to be led too
far from the subject, I return to the more special
question of the improvement of our prisons.
In order to be able to produce a thorough
reform in the prison discipline, and the systematic
development and regular progress of the
penitentiary principle now accepted, it will be necessary
to direct the attention particularly to the organic
composition of this branch of government. It must
possess unity and strength, in order to impart one
common direction to the separate parts of the
prison discipline, and belong to one of the
departments of government, in order to have a person
sufficiently powerful and responsible as its guardian.
Although several reasons might be produced
for placing the prison discipline under the Home
Department, it seems nevertheless that it ought
rather to be placed under the superintendence of
the Minister of Justice (Justitie-Stats-Ministern)
because the subject is so nearly related to the
business of the legislature and the judge. It also
belongs to the duties of this officer to arrange the
criminal statistics, and thence to draw such
conclusions and experience as may spread a useful
light over many judicial subjects united with it[1].
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