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Eddy New York

Eddy New York

Reformation time requisite. 10 Page 63. "It can hardly be supposed, that any material or lasting
"effect can be produced on a criminal, by the labour and discipline of
"a penitentiary house, in a shorter time than four of f or five
"years. — And if he is incorrigible by means of solitude, temperance,
"and cleanliness, he will not merit if is guilty of a second offence,
"a punishment less severe than imprisonment for that length of time". —
[though a first offence was but a petty offence.]

Reformation time requisite- 11 Page. 69. "No man who enters the prison with vicious habits,
"can reasonably be expected to be divested of them in less than
"four or five years; and it would greatly injure the penitentiary
"system, to pardon any prisoner before the expiration of that time,
"unless in extraordinary caus, which may possibly, but very rarely,
"happen".

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Solitary confinement used only for refractoriness. 16 Page 32. "At first, the Judges, in some instances, exercised the
"power given them by the law, of sentencing the convicts to solitary
"confinement as a punishment for the crimes they had committed;
"but, afterwards, this was thought to be needlessly severe; and as the
"state was thereby deprived of the benefit of their labour, that
"punishment, though it may make a part of the sentence which
"follows conviction, is not now inflicted of course , but is left to be
"imposed by the Inspectors on such only as are otherwise refractory
"and incorrigible". —

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9 Nov 1802 83 Letter 2d (2 Example

No5 Philadelphia; 17865. Liancourt: p.329 In the year 1786 " A very
"considerable portion of the inhabitants if prisons are little affected
"by the tyrannical and cruel treatment of the gaolers. For however
"absurd, on first sight, the assertion may appear, it is nevertheless
"true, that many have been attached to such a residence, by the
"love of disorder & idleness. The present state of the prisons holds
"out to the offenders no other secenes scenes than those of annihilated
"liberty, the obligation to labour, and the injunction injunction
"of regularity & silence. In the 1786, after the

Identifier: | JB/116/036/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field	eddy new york
Image	001	Titles	letter 2d
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f83
Penner	jeremy bentham; john herbert koe	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham; john herbert koe	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	37569
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