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Capital Offences, it has appeared that the surrounding Wall not being secured at the top by Iron Spikes is easily got over; That the Window Bars being only fixed in a frame are by no means sufficiently strong; And that the Building being of Brick, a hold is easily made thro it with a common knife. These and many other defects render it totally unfil for the confinement of Criminals; From the height of the Windows, close confinement would be attended with almost immediate suffocation, and the commixture of the Felons with Debtors gives the foramen many opportunities to effect escapes by introducing Weapons and Instruments thro the Servants or in the names of Debtors. This consideration, alone, would make the Grand Jury recommend the total separation of all Criminals from the Debtors by appropriating a distinct Building for the former, but when they further reflect on the many difficultys and severe hardships under which the unfortunate Debtor laborurs by being united to the hardened Malefactor, Humanitiy demands that they
should