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XVI. Penitentiary system in England - Improved local
prisons. —

So much having been said of what has been
done in this way in foreign countries, the omission
might well seem a strange one, were nothing said
of what has been already been done in this way
here at home. —

On this subject however it would be in vain
for me to attempt to speak with any distinctness
and that for various reasons.

In the first place, I know not to which of
the existing prisons the denomination may be
applicable, nor what the number of them may
amount to in the whole. In England, Wales
included, * * Number of those visited by Howard 257. Howard on Prison 3d Edit. 1784. p. 486. Table XII. — what number of prisons nearer theree
three hundred than two: prisons improved upon
the penitentiary plan, between half a dozen, I
should suppose, and a dozen. Your Lordship knows
precisely: or at any time may know, from those
connoisseurs in prisons, who are as much at home
in "improved prisons" as they are in "improved Col(a)onies." (a) note giving the account from Nuld.

2. In the next place, it is only in here & there
an instance that the accounts would be accessible
to me: and were they even all before me, to speak
of all would require a work of itself; to dwell
upon one or two only, might be a sort of injustice
to the rest.

To all then int "improved" prisons , in what other
respects sove soever improved or supposed to be improved,
one feature of improvement belongs in common —
enccr encrease of enclosed space. In each instance, this increase

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Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	605	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	xvi penitentiary system in england - improved local prisons
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38138
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