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the present enormous expence, and of preventing that
Shocking corruption of Morals which is generated in all
Gaols where Prisoners live Idly together — Since that
Period, I have had occasion to consider a Plan, digested by
Jeremy Bentham Esqr. of Queens Square Place Westminster,
in which all the Ideas I had formed on this
Interesting subject seemed to be concentrated, with many
other Improvements which had not occurred to me: and
I have no difficulty in giving it as my decided opinion
that if the Plan proposed by that Gentleman is adopted
and carried into effect, infinite and incalculable advantages
will arise to the Public, not only by a very
considerable diminution of the enormous expence at
present incurred, but in the improvement of the Morals,
and in the future utility, of the Convicts who may be
placed under such an Establishment

The Witness in explanation of hte Outlines of
Mr Bentham's Plan delivered in a Paper Entitled
"Proposal for a new and less expensive mode of
"employing and reforming Convicts together with
the Outline of a new Plan of Construction for
a Building adapted to that purpose.

Qu 11

What Ground have you for supposing that a great
Corruption of Morals arises form the System of the
Hulks?

As far as my observations have been directed, to
Convicts who have been discharged form those Establishments,
I have seldom or ever known an Instance of
their return to Honest Industry. — On the Contrary
many



Identifier: | JB/117/100/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

1798-06-23

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

100

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

copy / of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire, / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report / of the / committee on finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th june 1798) / as relates to mr bentham's penitentiary plan

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

Watermarks

j whatman

Marginals

Paper Producer

admiral pavel chichagov

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

38717

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