JB/141/069/001

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The same gentleman mentions a set of
Calls provided for the purpose of Solitary Confinement
in Clerkenwell Bridewell by order of
the Justices of the Peace for that division
one of those Magistrates he says assures him
"That every person committed to those
"solitary apartments had been in a few days
"reformed to an amazing degree."- The
appartments though solitary were not dark
nor is anything said about the circumstance
of diet.-

Directly opposed to solitary ConfinementImprisonment is
the promiscuous association of all the Prisoners
under confinement. - The evil suffering which results
+o It is evidently not so much
inflicted as admitted from
the supposed inability of Government
to exclude it: the great & only
objection to its exclusion being
the expence of the arrangements
necessary to the accomplishment
of that purpose - The advantage
by which it is recommended is
that of Frugality from this circumstance is not an intentionalthe result of direct
intention on the part of the Magistrate It is
an evil acknowledged and yet suffered still to exist
to a very considerable extent.- The principal
reasons assign for If this neglect is that of economy +o -It
is less expensive to shut up prisoners in one
room than to provide separate appartments
for them each one or even to keep them divided them into classes (1)

(1) It must be acknowledged that this difficulty was
very great before the invention of the plan of
central Inspection.

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