Hence it is a rule never to be departed from, that none are to be chosen as successors to these different officers, but such, as shall be found on inquiry to have been exemplary in their lives.
As reformation, again, is now the great object, no corporal punishment is allowed in the prison.

No keeper can strike a criminal.

Nor can any criminal be put into irons.

All such punishments are considered as doing harm.

They tend to extirpate a sense of shame.