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place, and that the work is performed with order
and assiduity.
The Chaplain ought to institute examinations
with them at certain times, and every Sunday and
Holiday they should be present at the service.
Bibles and Psalmbooks should be distributed among
them. If they commit disorders, become refractory
or idle, they are punished with solitary confinement,
dark cell and bread and water. The solitary cell can
also be applied should the prisoner commit a new
crime, so that the objection, which was made in
the question of capital-punishment, that those
condemned to imprisonment for life could not be
deterred from new crimes, from a fear of a severer
punishment than that to which they had already
been submitted, falls to the ground.
Prisoners for life stand under the inspection
of the Commandant and Town-Major, who,
according to a given formule, send reports to the
prison- direction.
With regard to the time within which the
principle of strict solitude can and ought to be
applied, there are still many different opinions.
The severe effect of solitary confinement on the
prisoner, which forms one of the advantages in the
Pensylvanian system, (for if humanity enjoins, that
punishments ought not to be humiliating, justice
demands that they should be serious) has caused
doubts in the minds of many as to the propriety
of extending it longer than to at most three years.
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