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Establishments I have seldom or ever known an instance
of their return to Honest Industry — On the contrary
many of them have been detected immediately afterwards
in the Commission of new Crimes from which it may
be inferred that this Species of Punishment has not
answered the intentions of the Legislature so far as
relates to the reformation of the Convicts but the chief
cause of the general corruption of Morals which is so
apparent may be traced to their indiscriminate
mixture of hardened and irreclaimable Thieves with
Country Convicts who under other circumstances might
have been reclaimed but with so many evil examples
before them too often become as hardened at the period
of their discharge as the worst Class of Felons thereby
rendering the Establishment a complete Seminary
of Vice and Wickedness . In giving however such a
decided opinion against the System of the Hulks I
would wish to be understood as not imputing the
smallest blame to the Contractors . The error is in the
System not in the management : and the evils
arising from it must continue until a better mode
is adapted ; whatever the management may be.
Question 12. Does the Plan proposed by M<hi rend="superscript">r. Bentham
appear to you to contain an easy and practicable
remedy to those abuses ?
Answer. It certainly does and its immediate adoption
would be a most important object to the Public not only
in a Financial but also in a Moral point of view.

Identifier: | JB/117/097/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	097	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	copy of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report of the / committee of finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th of june 1798)
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38714
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