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The furnishing of the food ought in general to be managed by contract, according to a given diet suited to the peculiar advantages of the neighbourhood. The prisoners would thus obtain a more wholesome food, and the possibility of obtaining spirits would be rendered more difficult.
This arrangement might easily be made, and would meet with difficulties only at those district-prisons, which are situated in places thinly inhabited, which, however, seldom happens, as the district-prisons are generally near inns and greater or less villages.
One difficulty, which will arise from separating the furnishing of the food from the other duties of the jailer, will be the necessity, in that case, of increasing his salary. This circumstance, the justness of which must be acknowledged, and which also forms a convincing proof of the correctness of my remark, can be overcome without any great expense, and ought to be taken into consideration in order to obtain persons who may be depended on. The under-jailers must also in this respect be remembered.
As it is reasonable that the salary of the jailers should be in proportion to their duties and responsibility, all the county-jails in the country should be divided into three classes, according to their average population during the last 5 years. The salaries for the jailers of the first class should be
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