Why does Hawthorne begin The Scarlet Letter with a refection about the need for a cemetery and a prison?

Hawthorne
writes:

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of
human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized that among
their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and
another portion as the site of a prison.

 Hawthorne
suggests that whatever Utopia is established, there always will be death, and there always will
be crime, that this is just part of humans living in a...