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IV. CHAPTER.
ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM IN SWEDEN.
In order to be able to form a correct judgement of the necessity and possibility of the application of the Penitentiary system in Sweden, it will be necessary to examine the present state of our prisons. A short account of them will, then, probably be acceptable.
Already at the diet of 1815 there was a question of building houses of correction, in order that these institutions might be ready when the new law should be adopted. The states in 1817 appointed money for this purpose, and two years afterwards the institution for labour and correction was established at Wadstena. Money was collected in several counties for the building of houses of correction, the necessity of a careful inspection of all the prisons in the kingdom was perceived, and in 1825 a separate administration was formed for the direction of those questions which belonged to their organisation and management. This measure was, without doubt, quite correct, for it is aa indispensable condition in this important branch of government, that system and activity should be introduced; but that is nevertheless only a part of the whole, only one of those pillars on which the building is to rest.
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