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Letter 3d XVI Improved Prisons

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The contra the
patrons of the improved
prisons
when understood
supported the Panopticon
improvement—
Those who have
thus opposed that
improvement are
persons too high
to think about it.

The conclusion made by the patrons and
organizers of the most improved of all these
improved prisons has been somewhat different.
Yes, my Lord: It is among the most distinguished
of its rivals that the panopticon plan has ever
found the most cordial of its well-wishers—the
most generous of its supporters.

Persons who (one might almost venture to
affirm) never saw the inside of a prison in
their whole lives—persons by much too high
to have ever bestowed upon any such low object
any thing that can be called a thought—persons
who are as much at home in "improved"
prisons are they are in "improved" Colonies—
it is by such lovers of improvement, and by
the lovers of such improvements, that the
penitentiary system in its most improved form has
been consigned to "relinquishment", and the authority
that prescribed it, to contempt.—
It was not

Identifier: | JB/116/554/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	554	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f18
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38087
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