Annual report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society . which are nuisances, as much as the old state are nurseries of vice. They are sometimes introductory to, andsometimes receptacles from the prison. There is often an alternationfrom alms house to prison and from prison to alms house. We havenot stated the facts in detail which are Jcnown to us, nor shall we doit in this place and at this time, but if the character of the establish-ments is not altered, from which these facts are gathered, they willbe exposed in their naked deformity. Publicity will correct the
Annual report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society . which are nuisances, as much as the old state are nurseries of vice. They are sometimes introductory to, andsometimes receptacles from the prison. There is often an alternationfrom alms house to prison and from prison to alms house. We havenot stated the facts in detail which are Jcnown to us, nor shall we doit in this place and at this time, but if the character of the establish-ments is not altered, from which these facts are gathered, they willbe exposed in their naked deformity. Publicity will correct the evils,if other means fail. With this brief notice of the connexion between pauperism andcrime, as it exists in Massachusetts, we leave our notice of the inter-ests of prison discipline in the State, only adding, that a new jail isbuilding in New Bedford, on a plan furnished by the Society, whickwill afford facilities for separation, inspection, instruction and labor. m GROUND VIEW OP THB NEW STATE PRBON AT WKTHERSPIELD, OOIflf. I Q UmU \s\J H—i- J K^sTLTTn. U Ls 1^. q q q q a a, front door ; &, entry 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep ; c, keepers private room 20 feet square ; rf,keepers dining room aO feet square ; c, keepers kitchen 20 feet by 25 ;/, guaid room 25 feet by 25 ; ^,ehapel 35 feet by 40 ; h, h, h, area around the cells 10 feet wide and open from the ground to the roof;i,i, i, cells 7 feet by 7 and 3 1-2 feet widejj ,j, shops 38 feet wide and 160 feet long; k, yard 160 by 124feeti1, yard gate ; m, m, sentinel boxes extending from one side of the shops to the other, and commanding, aTiewof the external walls, of the interior of the shops, and of the interior of the yard ; n, n, doors ; o,oVen ; p, bakers stand ; q, q, q, q, q, q, windows ; r, r, r, r, points of observation and inspection j9,8, s, s, 8, water closets, <!!cc. ; o-o-o steam cooking apparatus •, the well, and rain water cistern tobe placed under the guard room, keepers kitchen, and that part of the
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