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preferable to our present prison discipline. Prisoners for life are kept at labour under strict superintendence and order, but not absolute silence (see page 107).
As there is but little hope of the improvement of such as have already been for a considerable lime exposed to the deep corruption of out- prisons, it would be unwise to employ, generally, the absolute cell-system on these hardened beings. Considerable expenses would thus be caused, which, without any corresponding advantages, would on the contrary only lead to false results as to the moral effects of cell-life. A careful examination must consequently take place within our prisons, for the choice of those whose short period of confinement and other circumstances afford some hope of their repenting and forsaking their former conduct, and on these the penitentiary system may be applied.
From of the views staled in the fourth chapter, and according to the calculations accompanying the plates, the number and cost of the cells will be as follows:
Small-cells. For the second degree of penal- labour 450 small-cells are necessary, (see page 111). As the Auburn system should be considered only as a transition, the expenses necessary for its arrangement ought, of course, lo be as limited as possible. I take for granted, consequently, that one of the present houses of correction will be
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