JB/116/042/001

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Liancourt

Page 6. "Criminals, loaded with irons, and scattered through
"the streets, and along the roads, presented to the public the
"spectacle of vice rather than of shame and misery; and the
"impossibility of watching them properly, facilitated the means
"of excess, of drunkenness, of pillage, and of escape. All the
"prisoners, whatever might have been their crimes, or their
"characters, were confounded in one mass. By this mixture, the
"bad were not ameliorated, but the less criminal often became
"worse. They spread terror over town and country; and far from
"being put in the way of amendment, became initiated in
"new scenes of wickedness, till the prisons were found incompetent
"to contain the incr increasing number of the convicted."—

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Page 54. Care is taken as far as possible to separate the less
"vicious from the more hardened and daring offenders. [About twenty-
"two of the most obdurate criminals are kept confined and at work
"in separate apartments, and are not suffered to come out, or to have
"any communication with other prisoners, but are constantly watched
"by keepers day and night]. Experience will evince, that among any
"given number of convicts, one tenth part may fairly be considered
"as desperate and hardened villains, who appear incorrigible; and
"it is of importance that such should be carefully selected & separated
"from the rest, as it is more probable they may, by proper management,
"be reformed."

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above 5 in a 100 have been known to return.

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No certain death. Philadelphia: 1786: Liancourt 1796. p. 38. Many of the prisoners, already in confinement, reported who
"at first regarded the members of the committee as their friends
"and benefactors, (while they confined their attention to the furnishing
"them with clothes, and providing them with better food) looked
"upon them as enemies, as soon as they found them busied in
"removing from the prisons the occasions of disorders. Whatever
"opposition they were able to make partial or combined, by craft,
"resistance, or refusal to work; in fine, every method to thwart
"the establishment of the new discipline was put in action: and
"the very day on which it was to commence, the whole number,
"agreeably to a preconcerted plan, attempted to break prison.
"Fifteen of them actually escaped: the remainder were secured.

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Identifier: | JB/116/042/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	liancourt
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	37575
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