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New York Prison

Eddy, letter to
Colquhoun 6 June 1802

Economy
"It is very certain
"that the labour performed
"by the prisoners
"will be more
"than sufficient to support
"and cloath
"them pay for bringing
"them from the
"Counties and other
"incidental expences."

P. 18, 19. Inspection
principle necessary. p.37.

P.49. Reformation Drunkenness
Sobriety restores health.

P.52. Reformation
effected.

P.53. Reformation
– Cleanliness conducive.

P.54. Reformation
Separation conducive.

P.55 Economy –
Indemnification for
maintenance &c
assured.

p.58. Compensation
to injured
produces prosecutions

p.61. Bull-baiting
censured.

p.60. Reformation Drunkenness
the source of crimes
will not be supressed,
when to the loss of
the suppressors

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p.63, 69. Reformation
– tune requisite.

p.70. This institution
copied.

Remedies (temporal)
unavailing to
Punishments and
Rewards – Rewards
Evidence unobtainable.
even by
rewards

Remedies (temporal)
unavailing
2. Preventive policy.

Remedies (temporal)
unavailing – Public
Guardians are
Functionaries
3. Public
Functionaries –
themselves corrupted

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1. That the most
pernicious feature
of depravity is
the propensity to
depredation: in
its several forms of
Petty &
Robbery, Burglary
and predatory Murder.

That Sloth is one
cause of that propensity
and that the indulgence
of that propensity
is easy
under the Colonization
system easy – under
the Penitentiary System
conducted as it has
been conducted, impossible.

2. That Gaming
is another cause
and that as

3. That promiscuous
association is
another cause

That promiscuous
sexual intercourse
with depraved persons of
the other opposite sex is
another cause.

92 & Liancourt 28.
It is not more than
two years that
the new regulations
have had their
full operation,
although the law
which authorised
them was passed
some time before.

10
Bradford saw nothing
but damage

11
Motive an index
of probability.

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Eddy p.84
Account of Crimes
and Convicts preceding
the erection of the new
Prison unascertainable.

Eddy p.85
Of 348 prisoners
who have been discharged
by expiration of nature
and pardon+ 29 only
or 1/12 part, have
been convicted of new
offences, and of those
16 were foreigners.
Of 86 pardoned, 8 have been recommitted
for second
offences, and 5 of
these were foreigners.
+ In 5 years as
per p.84.

1
Incendiarism – its
magnitude. p.25

2
Mischief of the 1st
order extensive; of
the 2d all-extensive
p.25

3
Motives that may
give birth to it
1. Enmity p.25

4
2. Sport the most
horrific. p.25

5
3. Gain. p.26

6
Other propensities by
accident. p.26
Every object which
by serving as an obstacle
to any propensity, presents
itself as in essence a cause
of pregnant with some pain or
an object to some pleasure –
Gaols – Schools
Charities

7
Jails , Schools
& Charities in N.S. Wales

8
In scarcity arson
common in England

9
Government and its
functionaries the objects
of perpetual enmity in
New South Wales

Identifier: | JB/116/456/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	456	Info in main headings field	eddy new york prison
Image	001	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37989
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