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According to the comparison made in the third Chapter between the two penitentiary systems, we have found, that the Philadelphian possesses a decided superiority, and that this system is specially applicable for prisoners while waiting for trial, and for those whose improvement is considered possible, and who, after having gone through their punishment, are to return to society. From this point of view proceed the following propositions respecting the prisons for penal-labour.
Those criminals who are condemned to imprisonment in the fortifications (supposing the abolishment of capital-punishment) or, (if capital-punishment be retained) to penal-labour for life, ought not, consequently, to be submitted to the Philadelphian system. It would be too much opposed to the nature of man, to shut up these unhappy beings in a solitary cell forever; that would be almost to bury them alive, and this cruelty were surely without purpose.
Those who are imprisoned for life, varying in number from 550 to 600, ought to be confined in different fortifications for which purpose Karlsten and Kungsholmen seem to be most suitable, being situated on islands in the open sea; the prisoners are supplied, as far as possible, with separate sleeping rooms, and are kept strictly at work and together. To apply the system of absolute silence were here even inhuman, but the keepers ought to see only that no unnecessary conversations take
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