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Panopticon Convict Proposal 1793.

Proposal
For a new and less expensive mode
of
employing and reforming Convicts.

The author, having turned his thoughts to the
Penitentiary System from its first origin, and having
lately contrived a building in which any number
of persons may be kept within the reach of being inspected
during every moment of their lives, and
having made out as he flatters himself to demonstration
that the only eligible mode of managing an establishment
of such a nature in a building of such construction
would be by contract, has been induced to make public
the following proposal for maintaining and employing
convicts in general, or such of them as would otherwise
be confined on board the Hulks, for per Cent
less than it costs Government to maintain them
there at present, deducting also the average value
of the work at present performed by them Government: ___
upon the terms of his receiving the produce of
their labour, taking on himself the whole expence
of building without any advance to be made
by Government for what purpose, requiring only
that the abatement and deduction abovementioned
shall be suspended for the first year.

Upon the abovementioned terms he would engage
as follows.

1.st To furnish the Prisoners with a constant supply
of wholesome food, [not limited in quantity, but adequate
to each man's desires.]

2nd To keep them clad in a state of tightness and neatness
[superior to what is usual among the lower
classes or even in the improved prisons.]

3rd To keep them supplied with separate beds and bedding
competent to their situation, and in a state
of cleanliness [scarce any where conjoined with liberty.]

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Date_1	1793	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	011	Info in main headings field	panopticon convict proposal 1793
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37386
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