CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 369

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grant asted for for this specific

"item of expence .

The classification of

every Jail is

prisoners in,

Sine

is a

quia non, but with the

present Amount of,

of prisoners

ane

poucity of space it would be ide to attempt classification.

As long as the present building remains unimproved the general mass must continue to herd

together, with the serious responsibility attaching to those who have the hown off remedying the evil of knowing that every man who is at present confined in

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Margthony Juil must have it

a worse man than he entered

if his moral character is capable of deterioration, it buing hously possible to separate either by day or night the most venial offender from the most hardened

1 russian: It is equally fuble at present

to consider whether it would be actrizable to organize a supplem

System

of Separate confinement, that

may or may not be

be

a

question

to the considered her after the

work the Government appear

to me.

to have at present incumbent