The introduction of these Mills into the English
prisons is said to have produced much good, and the experiment is
about to be tried in this country. The corporation of the city of
New-York are building one in the yard of their Penitentiary. One
of the late London papers announces the singular fact that on the
12th of September, at the Town-hall, Southwark, there was no
charge, either of felony, misdemeanor, or assault, within the
extensive district, of five parishes, from the night before.
Crimes of all descriptions had lessened very much; and this
decrease, it is said, is owing entirely to the heavy and tedious
labor upon the prisoners at the mill. Orders had been given for
the erection of several more in England.
_Salem Register_, 1822.
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Description of the Tread Mill
_Recommended by the Society for the Improvement of Prison
Discipline._
The annexed engraving exhibits a party of prisoners in the act of
working one of the tread wheels of the Discipline Mill invented
by Mr.
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