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and all manufacturing under the direction of the prison, and that raw 

 material should be purchased to supply the machinery placed 

 there for the purpose of manufacturing the goods and then the goods 

 should be furnished to state institutions where they need them and the 

 surplus be thrown upon the market at the usual price. This would 

 keep all the prisoners employed and would also give them instructions 

 by way of learning and drill in completing the finished product, which 

 is an education in itself. Then wherein it is necessary and possible, 

 part of the time should be employed in obtaining a fair theoretical 

 as well as industrial education. In this way the management of the 

 prisoners in their graded condition would be more directly under the 

 control of the warden and, instead of being treated as a gang at work 

 in the shop and elsewhere, an individual consideration of every pris- 

 oner would be reached in discipline, manual labor and intelligent 

 training. 



It is not the purpose of penal institutions to humble or degrade 

 humanity. There is no object in it and moreover it has a tendency to 

 breed crime. Men who are sufficiently evil and reckless to commit 

 flagrant crimes are not benefitted by a punishment that degrades them 

 or tends to rob them of the appearance of manhood. For this reason 

 the striped suits worn by prisoners should be abandoned and suits 

 which will classify persons within the walls, be adopted. If it be said 

 that it is more difficult to apprehend those who escape if the tradi- 

 tional striped clothes are abandoned, let it be said this is of no impor- 

 tance ; if the Bertillon or French system of registry be adopted, as 

 represented in the following tables, there will be little chance of 

 escape. 



