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Letter II. Plan for a Penitentiary Inspection House.
Of this grating a part sufficiently large opens, in form of a Door
to admit the Prisoner at his first entrance; and to give admission at any
time to the Inspector or any of his attendants.
To cut off from each Prisoner the view of every other, the partitions
are carried on a few feet beyond the grating into the intermediate
area: such projecting parts I call the protracted partitions.
It is conceived, that the light, coming in, in this manner through
the Cells, and so across the intermediate area, will be sufficient for
the Inspector's Lodge. But, for this purpose, both the windows in
the Cells, and those corresponding to them in the Lodge, should be as
large as the strength of the building, and what shall be deemed a necessary
attention to Economy, will permit.
To the windows of the Lodge there are blinds, as high up as
the eyes of the Prisoners in their Cells can, by any means they can
employ, be made to reach.
To prevent thorough light, whereby notwithstanding the blinds
the Prisoners would see from the Cells whether or no any person was in the
Lodge, that apartment is divided into quarters, by partitions, formed
+by two diameters to the circle, crossing each other at right angles. For
these partitions the thinnest materials might serve: and they might
+be made removable at pleasure; their height, sufficient to prevent the prisoner
seeing over them from the cells. Doors th to these partitions, if left open
at any time, might produce the thorough light. To prevent this, divide each
partition
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