New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

PRISON AT AUBURN. We have been furnished by a correspondent with a view and description of the new state prison erected at Auburn, N. Y. to which the Governor has adverted in his message to the legislature. One building designed to contain 400 cells covers only 206 by 46 feet of ground. There are 5 stories of cells, each containing 80 in 2 parallel lines, divided in the middle by a wall two feet thick. The walls between the cells are one foot thick. The cells are 7 feet long, 7 high, and 3 1-2 wide, intended to receive only one convict in each. Each cell has a ventilator extending to the roof, and is so constructed in front that the prisoners can neither converse or make signs to each other. The area around the cells is 10 feet wide and open to the roof, which covers the galleries of the several stories. Besides the moral benefit arising from keeping the prisoners separate, it unites that of economy and security. From the construction of the prison, 5 small stoves, 6 large and 12 small lamps, all out of reach of the convicts, afford heat and light to 555 cells; and one sentinel is sufficient to 400 prisoners.

Bost. Pat.