. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . our run from 2 years to life, and are servedout in community on the progressive system, according to Royal Actof Febr. 13th 1873. Sentences to work in houses of correction runfrom 8 months to 6 years, and are, as a rule, served out in solitaryconfinement day and night. If served out in this manner, part ofthe time of sentence is deducted, so that a sentence of 8 months isserved out in 6, and longer sentences are shortened one third forthe first 3 years, and one half for the time following. Besides the 3 penitentiaries named, Denmark
. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . our run from 2 years to life, and are servedout in community on the progressive system, according to Royal Actof Febr. 13th 1873. Sentences to work in houses of correction runfrom 8 months to 6 years, and are, as a rule, served out in solitaryconfinement day and night. If served out in this manner, part ofthe time of sentence is deducted, so that a sentence of 8 months isserved out in 6, and longer sentences are shortened one third forthe first 3 years, and one half for the time following. Besides the 3 penitentiaries named, Denmark has 95 jails, whichare used as places of detention, and in which also sentences to im-prisonment from 2 days to 2 years are served out. In these prisonsthere are solitary cells as well as common prison-wards. The jailsare communal institutions (about communes see p. 65); their supremecontrol is only exercised by the central administration. At theclose of this article will be found a short survey of the diseasesappearing in the jails &c. from 1886— VRIDSLOSELILLE PENITENTIARY.
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