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sat awn lowititlei few Wel ; Ile ....f Mier' eau
•517 bs jselilled ales memoir, foe she pommel of safe
Mara) , ; soil is • prism; ohm the farlos-roseiets *re gm-
lame& dm frltariss proposers els are ovailyr titanium
ties ie, io tbe Palsies of your Coagulative, unwarrantable.

Here Ibe description of the Prison is moot' il
Milder the Ire. ds of " Visiting Migistrates" must
" Attendance." The Report then pies
teed' tho•
~Ohm —Toter Committee cannot refer to this sate
jet without great psis; the experiment of • Moose of
Corrertioo has here cutler', failed. They are. however,
satisfied. that the failure is to be &Unloosed to the badness
of the system adopted; to the MINI of the proper senatratioa
sod elassillestows of pennons ; to the &motore from the
principle nod enactments of the Arts of the lath and 31st
set Geo. 111 ; sod to the slowest entire absence a oupploy.
&M. so resential to carry Imo erect the isersitoros a the
agglollatisre, is mooing the slinve.nonsed Illatotes; and thi
where, that oil of the Sid misusers who were I. the Cold
DallifirM., ore the TOth of April, et had been committed
there before.
The Goverepor heforoted yoar Committee that the prison,
at present, Nis sot exactly a House of Correction ; and he
is afraid that moot of the prisoners who him been amassed
there are as had whew they go owl as tlgty are *heti they
rolloe in, sod some a rest deal worm; bud Hitt this is is
comormienee of the great somber who asnotiate together:"
The Chaplain nays, he is decidedly of °Maio*, %het from
the eleariphor of the prison. It commis more than it re.
forms; and the Aorgeos, who has bees there 23 years, ta-
prooms his sorrow that be cannot say he has ever sees moth
itapeurtmeat.
Oa • review the, of the slats and mamemsent of this
Ileums of Correction, your Committee feel it their duly to
declare it to he their divided opinion that the whole sys-
tem taboret tberehe requires to be ehai:ged ; they Impute has
blame to the oilmen of the prison, who, from all they have
hems able to ma and learn, are reenter, ~restive, anal himd
eo the prisoner. Intrusted to their care. Hat • House of
Correct tow without sides and regulations, in w hie% the spirit,
and, in many inmates, timely the letter of those statutes
which Parliament have enacted epos these subjects ire set
at nought ; where (either coereptiem sod not reformitton is
the result, and through ihicb above 3,000 persons pass am
ovally, it, ilk the jedgmeat et your Committee, no establish.
mess, the tuotiousisee of whiclh, wader its pemeut system,
is eaknlstiel to sogisimit the mischiefs it is Weeded to
diminish : and to spread that disposition to commit cringes
against the property and peace of society, which, from whit-
s sty coneys arising, is unhappily for the country so univer-
sally prevalent.
Your Committee hoeing thus examined into the pre.
sent condition of two of the principal primes of the
metropolis, sad lie Hoare of Curreetime for foe
(utility of Middlesex ; taking she into their considers.
loon the mrknowkdged deficiencies of the moiety and
ity prison uf Newest', cumin refrain from calling the
emotion of the House to the deplorable state uf all
these plates of coalinemmt. 11 appears that no less

than 10,3/1 permits have mooed through these three prisons
sterile, she less* 11 mouths, of whom 1,714 were tender twenty
years of age; from the iseaniser is which these 10,000 persons
were fossilised, they most all Dribs,* have Mew more or lass
earropted by As eoapaay in which they were orsonated, tied
rendered worse eneinhersof society by the mease "hie* the law
proposes to make them bette►. As, however, from the small
occonealsodatioa which each prison affords foe the purposes of
classification sad the sepoestim of elfairkes, se diciest plan
ems be expected to take place in the prisons, your Committee
wish to propose the clessi lest ion of the prisons theasselveviod
obey caw me so rational objectiou ne sock a plan being ears ied
loft formation oo the mat useably of Parliament. Newest,
might be appropriated solely be ell charges of felonies before
trial. Cliskenwell fur mis,lerseemaats and Gees fur misde-
meanants, aid fur primitives loader 111/443111111111110011, aid for
&salon eases before trial. Felon-Goes to be cossinsitted lu
As Cold Path-Gelds prison, as well as those misdemeanors
t►at require solitary emprisodentnt. the debtors from all
the prisons to be 'ensured to the New prison; and (briber
acconewindation to be provided fur the vagrauts within the
area of the present House of Cufrectiuu, so that they
.toilet here nothing to du with the interior of the prison.
prison to be used for re.exasaination prisoners
aneinisited fruit the differeat allege, misdemeanors, and
soisdeuemo* Goes. lu this way great additional gems-
modatiiss would be afforded its each prised, and a mode of
discipline sleight be adopted suited to the condition of each
Class unil description of offenders. The rules of rigour that
are proper for convicted prisonem, are surely improper to
be applied to the untried ; and the Nue for a misdemeanor
1'.1111104 in justice be subject to the same severity of dis-
cipline which is applied to the eurirrelioll of the felon.
liesidio, it is well basso, that arch additional seemanm-
slatioss is required in Newgate and in the prim. of Tothill-
Gelds.

Voir Committee feel, therefore, disposed to snivel the
peoprirly or building a new prbun, wkly for the febabes ;
so Ihat prison, where, as to the Saint I.sksre, at Paris, all
the women *be are rrrrt►icied of offences, as well as the dis•
•ieilorly in the metropolis, may be at mire committed; they
all be made subject to a discipline, moral and reh-
gloms ; and, above all, trained to such habits of industry,
as road give them at least a chance of setraislialt that ilia-
t wet 1:1 society •hick they Itti.l kW by their Miiciondwirt.
The example of Newest', under the tore of Mrs. Fry, de.
munstrates how mach cam be dour, even under every dis-
conraerment.

Your Coniniftlee are limey to be obliged to remark, that
though there is uo sabject upon which the beat interests of
society more depend, than the prevention of offeiwn and
the reformation of offenders, yet, in this Country, nose here
received so little attention ; and That while every giviliced
nation in Europe is bringing into active operation the prin-
ciple of That round mid rational policy, designated by the
penitentiary system, this c•tsutry alone. has, until the last
f•w years. brew content to pass two Acts of Parliament, the
19th awl 3lst Geo. 111 and to remain indifferent if the sa-
Isilar) ramelatents of ibex slagging were put into execution.
Your Committee beg leave to direct the attentioa or the
Howse to these Act, of Parliament, and They trust That
narly is the ensuing Session some additional legislative
measure may be brought forward, to carry nut only Illy let-
ter but the spirit of these Acts, into intarediate execution
Your Committee, in liorstsanee of the plan which, in Itir
gerund Report of the last Session of Partiament, they lay
Joon as ■ genie for their future t anduct, proceed 11, the
considerstios of the oilier subjects which have been sub.
milted lu their investigation.

I. THE DIFFERENT POLICE. ESTABLISHMENTS
OF THE 31ETRI1P01.16
These Estalilishinents were hrolight nailer the Irk* of Par.
Raiment, su the 49th Repot I of Elliellar, which was preuentril
to this House, auil ordered to hi. primed in 1799. At that
prrind„ porkerlems she office in llow-.trees, there were eight
Grogram pollee ull6;es, wills three insures presiding itsii
each *nee then. another has been toldrol. 'misled The
'll.4enes Police, which has the same solinhir of Mari•te ales
to Mores it. eitablishineed, as those abuse mentioned.
It appear. from I ifith Report of she Finance Committee,
Thal the annual 6, or the total ex- ,C a. j.
pease of ilw seven Police 011ie... to the
Metropolis, taken from She lime of these
twitting...it in August, 1792, So the rod
441797, briinga period of nearly 51.1 ran,
antonsitol to
And that the expense of the sillier in How.
Mimi, in Ibr sear 1797, ineholisex remit-
SlerjA lOM to bl 'goo, •tra 1.1 IWO of fees
moil migni.ites, or fir special aeivo-es,
a. well a. Co lb. p tirople, comittosE of
00 vf....08. ani.l.llllCli to
fa she year 1411, shersorows of now-.trey(
ansonitted alone to she net cost of
Ails .. to
1414,
And 1017,
And Shoe of the seven other others, tint e
11‘..ines Puller
sloe 'ear 1414,
-- 1415, to . 23,18111 910

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And in 1.17,
I:, the 9th stctglio of tM 511 h Get, 111 t. S 7, it ic cnxt•