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Excerpt from Some Account of the State of the Prisons in Spain and Portugal Though Seville is the city in Spain in which inquiry was first actually engaged on the subject of prison-discipline, little or nothing has hitherto been done for its improvement. Dr. Manuel Maria Marmol, an eminent ecclesiastic, published a tract, about twelve months ago, insisting on the absolute necessity of some changes, and recommending the adoption of a system of discipline likely to pro mote reformation. It has been proposed to remove the prisoners to the building lately occupied by the Inquisition; which from its extent would allow of some classification, and of the introduction of employment. Of the dreadful state of disorganisation and abandonment of the great prison at Seville, some idea may be formed from the circumstance that extensive coining was carried on there as lately as 1820, and that it has sometimes been necessary (such was the insubordination or rebellion of the convicts) to call in the15] the Prisons in Spain and Portugal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.