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PRISON SYSTEM.
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have the means and desire to do so, and if the order and security of the prison
is not thereby interfered with. A representation has been lately made by the
Board of Prisons to diminish solitary confinement for young offenders and
female prisoners, and to reduce that of other prisoners also, after a period of
probation and for more individual reasons.
Work in Cow-liouse, Svartsjö.
The very important question of prison labour bounties, and measures necessary
to prevent prisoners from squandering the money so gained on their release,
has been satisfactorily solved by the regulation concerning prisoners’ bounties
of Oct. 24, 1890, and the alteration of that law made on June 22, 1900. The
accumulated payments are deposited in the Post-Office Savings-Bank and can, if
they exceed 20 kronor, be taken out upon release, only at a certain monthly
rate. If the released prisoner, during this time, is arrested for vagrancy or crime,
he has no right of disposal over the monies in hand, and, if he is convicted
and sentenced for crime or to compulsory labour, he loses it. It is clear that
such a regulation tends to a certain extent to counteract relapse into crime. The
total sum deposited in the Post-Office Savings-Bank, for prisoners released in
1913, amounted at the time of their release to 23 678 kronor. The amount
forfeited the same year through relapse was 808 kronor.
In order to enable prisoners to some extent to aid those who, by their fault,
have fallen into want, and to make it possible for them to keep and resume family
ties, they are allowed to send the "available" part of their gratuities to their
nearest relations. The Prisons Board may also augment these remittances from
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