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It is found also, that in other countries all radical reforms in the question of prisons have begun with the buildings themselves and their arrangement. Count Vilain XIV, and the renowned Howard, of whom it has been said with so much truth, that he lived as an apostle and died as a martyr, directed all their attention to this subject. The acute Bentham composed an extensive work on the arrangement of a model-prison, which he calls Panoptique, and where we find all those principles, from which, the improvements made in later years, principally take their rise.
The principal objects in a building for a prison are: the sure custody of the prisoner and the power of baffling his attempts at escape; an easily applied and at the same time secure guard; the complete separation of the prisoners and the hinderring of all communication among them; the promotion of cleanliness, ventilation, in short all that refers to the preservation of the health, and finally sufficient space for the proper employment of the prisoner.
This problem has given rise to many projects, more or less approaching the solution; to enter here into a detailed account of them would lead to unnecessary diffuseness. In the plan for a prison represented in plates I and II, I have endeavoured to unite those advantages which may reasonably be expected in such a building, with that strict economy, which it is so necessary in our
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