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Letter 3 XVI. Improved prisons

13
On the 3 principal
main
buildings, airing
yards and official
establishments together
between 3/4 or 2/3
16 1/2 million out of
22 1/2.

Thus for in upon main-bu main buildings alone.
Total of estimate the estimated part of the expence upon this comparatively frugal plan,
main buildings, airing grounds and official establishments
together—Annual account of Official establishments valued
(to match with the other expences) are reduced to at 20 years
capital viz at 20 years purchase
purchase. £ 22,459,561

Deduct expence of do in the Panopticon scale
and plan (but with additions) £ 6,022,000

Waste Remains, for the amount of waste in waste upon this part of the aggregate
of expence upon this comparatively frugal
plan, frugal as it would have been in comparison
of Mr Pitt's £ 6,437,568

In round numbers, Sixteen millions and a half out of two and twenty
millions and a half the waste by having two establishments
instead of one. The

These (it must moreover at the same time be considered)
were mere pauper establishments: the population submissive
in its nature, wishing for nothing less than to escape passive
aged the infant, the aged, the infirm—passive
for the greater part even to the degree of helplessness. To the
expence of this pauper establishment, prison establishments
especially upon the Blackstone plan—the plan pursued
and for aught I know universally, in the main at least in the existing pris</del
improved prisons—would have added I know not what
load of further expence: for example in solitary cells, with useless stone
and iron in abundance. It would have multiplied it
and by no very small number. In the pauper department Twenty Ten Pound £20 a head for
example was the expence upon the Suffolk pauper plan and scale
for upon the numbers actually lodged, £10 ten pound a head
upon the numbers capable of being lodged. In the prison
department, £240 a head or some small matter was the expence upon the Coldbath
Fields plan and scale upon the numbers capable
of being lodged there: I mean without departure from the intended plan
of occasional solitude management intended and .

6,022,000
3
18,066,000
6,022,000
24,008,000

Identifier: | JB/116/544/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	13
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	544	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38077
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