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6 Letter II. Plan for a Penitentiary Inspection House. Note continued
of cast iron, bedded into the brick-work; with an aperture which, neither
by its size nor shape, shall be capable of admitting the body of a man.
To gain the tunnel from the inside of the cell, the position of this pipe
will of course be slanting. At the At the bottom of the tunnel, on the outside
of the building an arched opening, so low as scarcely to be discernible, admit
of the filth's being carried away. No one, who has been at all attentive
to the history of prisons, but must have observed, how often escapes have been
effected or attempted through this channel.
A slight screen, which the Prisoner might occasionally interpose,
may, perhaps not, be thought superfluous. This, while it
answers the purpose of decency, might be so adjusted as to prevent his
concealing from the eye of the Inspector any forbidden enterprize.
For each cell, the whole apparatus would not come to many
shillings: a small consideration for a great degree of security. In
this manner, without any relaxation of the discipline, the advantages
of cleanliness, and its concommitant health, may be attained
to as great a degree as in most private houses.—
It would be regarded, perhaps, as a luxury too great for an
establishment of this kind, were I to venture to propose the addition of a
water pipe all round, with a cock to it in each cell. The clear expence
would, however, not be quite so great as it might seem: since by this
means a considerable quantity of attendance would be saved. To each
Prisoner
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