JB/116/606/001

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9 Letter 3d

increase has had one or more of three objects:— prevention
of disease — affording working room — affording
means of separation for Convicts of different descriptions:
sequestration in various degrees of perfection, up to
the pinnacle of penal luxury — total solitude. —

Space for prevention of disease is a most indisputable
improvement, wherever necessary, but an
improvement that has no particular reference to
penitentiary discipline. Of this salutary discipline,
space for separation, space for working, may be
stated as to the two characteristic features, so
far as architecture is concerned. —

In the increase of space for separation,
reformation, or rather non—increase ofor corruption,
was the object aimed at. This object will have
been compassed in a greater or less degree of perfection
according to the sufficiency of the architectural
means, and the use made of them in the
management. As far as my opportunities of observation
extended — and the enquiry was once
an object to me — one great obstacle to this end
appears to apply in common, and with scarce
any exception that I could observe, to all these
prisons: I mean the want of compleatness in
the plan of separation. What matters it whether
there be certain times of the day in which the
raw are debarred from getting instruction from
the reprobate, if there are others in which they are
brought together? In the department of wholesome instruction

Identifier: | JB/116/606/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	606	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38139
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