JB/116/234/001

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24 Mar 1802

N.S. Wales
Employable 11 continued

This then being a principle, thus a settled point
that a man not existing here exists no where, the
next consideration was how to turn it to account in
the way of practice. The principle of constructive
annihilation—the principle of considering man as dead
in morality as well as law would be effectual, so
long as the effect lasted. But when the man who
had been sent off came back again—when the
corruption that had thus staved off had instead of putting on incorruption
put on corruption had become worse corrupted, what became
then of the security what was the security
good for then?

12
Under a pretended
temporary banishment
an effective perpetual
banishment, secured
by an expected by the physical impossibility
of putting
an end to it.

Injustice attending
in the place of
keeping men in
banishment being
the legal name.

For remedy this imperfection
the Colonial system included in its original/physical organization contrivance
a supposed effectual remedy:+ Unhappily to put apply
this remedy required that the very fountain of
justice law should be poisoned and the administration
of this branch of penal law converted into a scene
of sad and solemn mockery and irremediable oppression.
What was imperfect by institution, was to be
rendered perfect by abuse. A term punishment declared
by legislative authority to be temporary, was by the
executive authority to be made perpetual. A punishment,
given openly as a limited one, was by
underhand management to be made endless boundless. In
force the law was to remain so heretofore: but the substance
of it was to be cut out corrupted and delayed by practice. The distinction which
it had cost so much legislative labour to mark out
the supposed estimated and graduated distinctions between crime and crime guilt and guilt and
the correspondent real distinctions between punishment and punishment,
were

Identifier: | JB/116/234/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-03-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	11 continued, 12
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"employable" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	37767
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