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Apr. 1811 1 4 Panopt. J.B. to Penitentiary Committee Letter IIV Part 2. §. II (or 7) I.1
54, or 1
J.B.'s Penopticon supposed
confirmed, question
what to be done
about the counties? p. 1.
I 2 55 or 2
Per J.B. London
Panopticon as large as
convenient, others also
at a maximum should
be set down in the
counties: — size
maximum thence
number minimum. p.1.
I 3 56 or 3
First and natural idea,
one per County, perhaps
objection such a county
would send but 5 or 6. p. 2
I 4 57 or 4
Thereupon notion of so
ordering matters, that
Counties may be engaged
voluntarily to unite. p.2.
V 6 §12 58 or 5.
Reasons against sending
County Convicts to London.
1. Expence of conveyance.
2. Danger of forcible escapes
3. Accumulation after
Better accumulated, when
employment is not: than altogether disposed
discharge where not .p.2
1.5 or 6.
Hereupon per J.B.
option between
1. Open mode on a
Large scale.
2. Close mode on a
small scale.
Close mode that pursued
in all the existing
prisons.
Open that here advocated
by J.B. p.3.
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59 or 7.
J.B.'s defence of the open
mode good as to other
matters, it will not
be rendered inapplicable
by the above two
objections. p.3.
§13 60 or 8 V. 7
1. Expence of conveyance
being paid for
once for all is small
in comparison of the
difference between
maintenance and construction
together
upon a large and do
upon a small scale
as above. (In 44, 49 46.) p.3.
61 or 9 V. 8
On the contract plan
the extra charge of
conveyance produced
by remoteness from the
prison might be done
away: Contractor
being paid according
to the average distance. p. 4
§.14 62 or 10 V. 1
Endless to wait for
agreement amongst
all the Counties as
to the provision in
respect of the building &
in Penitentiary receptacles.
No such agreement
has been waited for as
to the Colonization
& Hulk provision. p.4.
§ 15 13 or 11. V.2
Be the superiority of
the open mode upon a
large scale ever so incontestable,
it will scarcely
find universal acceptance
among the local authorities.
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§ 15 continued 64 or 12 V 3
Local interests will these
be naturally predominant.
objections.
1. Charge on the County.
2. Desire to have the
disposal of the County
money in the County
hands. p.5.
65 or 13 V. 4
Ostensible motive zeal
for the interest of the
County: —
real, desire of power
— of patronage or do of
management. p.5.
§.26 66 or 14 IV. 1
Country Panopticon, say
3: viz. for East, West,
North. Expence defrayed
in the first
instance by Government
as do of NS.
Wales & the Hulks:
transferable or not
upon the contribution
to the Poor rates?
(Yes: if most equable.
J.B. hesitates not.)
§17 67 or 15 IV 2
J.B. assured that one
day expence of maintenance
may on
Contract plan be
struck off altogether
probably even do of
building reimbursed p. 6
68 IV. 3 10
In all times & places
forced labour has been
a source of wealth:
viz even in families
unproductive numbers
included: —
much more would it
under Panopticon
principle & clear of
unproductive hands.
By the ademption of
the faculty of producing
causeless and useless
suffering, do of producing
profit would not be
lessened. p.6.
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*13 V. 5
, were these gentrifications
alone considered
the greater more the particular in
them the better.
But these few could not be
gratified but at the expence
of the many.
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