JB/116/548/001

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Letter 3d

24 Novr 1802

Note
XVI. Improved prisons

In the Cold Bath Fields prison, first cost of building per
head, upon the best best most authoritative information that could be obtained and
the most authoritative information was obtained, no less than twenty 40
times as much per head as upon the Panopticon plan.
The calculation is at Your Lordship's command at any time.

As to employment and maintenance, the state of it in those
respects can not be better exhibited delineated than by the following extracts
from a late publication, the author of which carries the
evidence of its own trustworthiness upon the face of it: and of which
the author is I dare say perfectly well known to them those who
know any thing, though as most perfectly unknown to me.

Without the decrease in the number of crimes, the scene of
them may have been changed. The persons deterred may
have been deterred—not from committing crime, but from
committing crimes within the precincts of a county in which so unpleasant
a mode of spending time may be the result. It is among the
observations made by the intelligent professors and practitioners in moral therapeutics
in Philadelphia, that among those to whose eyes the prospect
of imprisonment under the penitentiary form+ is
unsupportable, the prospect of imprisonment in the ordinary
form is a matter of comparative indifference. In the unimproved prisons, The loss
of the liberty of loco-motion is almost made up for
by the absence of labour, joined to the constant opportunity of congenial
conversation, sweetened by the occasional enjoyment
of the means of drunkenness.

On the ground of reformation, the publication of Mr Neild,
just put fallen into my hands, affords a comparison not quote so
much to the advantage of England as could be wished. In
Philadelphia, backsliders not more than 5 in a hundred 100
in the course of 5 years, even including the pardoned, on whom
the discipline with its benefits had not been . From Dorchester, in
the

Account of the Society
for the discharge of small
debts 1802.

Identifier: | JB/116/548/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	548	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f14**
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38081
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