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Panopt.
J.B. to Committee – Letter III. on Country Convicts.
1. Danger of eruption
answered –
Per J.B. the danger
no where considerable:–
but in London least.
In Tothill Fields they
might all be.
Within a few hundred
Yards of Tothill Fields
the Posts with its Guards.
Signals to and out
possible. p.7
13
In Rochester Row, on
the opposite side of Tothill
Fields is habitually
stationed a Military
Guard of nine
men. Being in view,
they would be under command
of a Magistrate
in the Panopticon. p.8.
14
To the assurance of the
prompt presence of a
guard of any required
strength, might thus be
added the habitual presence
of a small one. p.9
15.
In no provincial situation
would any security
comparable to this, be to
be found. p.9.
16.
Soldiers would be better employed
in preventing, without
bloodshed tumults from
Convicts, than by bloodshed
and death, quelling
do of political motive. p.9.
17.
Conceditur, spite of military
Guards, Prisoners of war
frequently escape. p.10
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18.
9. On the walls brittle
spikes to give way &
ring bells on touch of
rope or ladder.
10. Conversation Tube
between central lodge
and extra-mural
Watch-Houses.
11. Without the Wall
wet ditch to prevent
undermining.
12. To each Watch
House, alarm dogs.
p.11
19.
collateral use of this
enumeration.
These securities
might some of them
18.
Securities, few or none
of which are employed
in the case of
Prisoners of War
– all proposed in case of need
to be employed in Panopticon.
1. Distinctive uniform
2. Dress too close
to conceal weapons
3. Arms, by covering
of one, differently
coloured.
4. Companies small
and assorted.
5. To render mustering
instantaneous,
each Prisoner numbered
on his cloathing
back and breast.
6. No outlet but through
a passage too narrow
for two abreast, with
a bar forcing each
to stoop.
7. Constant illumination
of every spot
to which prisoners have
access.
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8. Divers eyes constantly
inspecting
viz from internal central
lodge, and from the
two extramural
Watch houses. p.10
9. On the walls
brittle spikes to
give way and ring
bells on touch of
rope or Ladder.
10. Conversation Tube
between Central Lodge
and Extra mural
Watch Houses.
11. Without the Wall
wet ditch to prevent
undermining.
12. To each Watch
House, alarm Dogs.
p.11.
19
Collateral use of this
enumeration.
These securities
might some of them
be applied to Prisoners
of War.
20
Conceditur. Many
of these securities
would not apply to
Convicts stationed
without the surrounding
walls. p.
21
Answer.
1. Day Light the only
time thus employed.
2. In many public
works, Convicts are by
day employed without
selection or any of
the above securities.
3. In a Panopticon
all the Prisoners
can not be supposed
desperately bent on
escape.
4. Nothing particularly
in Panopticon
treatment.
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22.
J.B. means not
to bind himself to
employ all these
securities at all
events. p.
23
The invention which
suggested them, excludes
not that ordinary
judgment that
would be necessary
for making a proper
choice out of them.
24
II Accumulation
after discharge answered.
Option here is between
London and a Country
Town. Population
of the largest Country
town 80,000 that
of London 1,000,000.
Though all the
Panopticons were
in London the ratio
of discharged Convict
Population to general
d. would in London
be the least.
24*
III. Remoteness of the
Convicts from their
desired abodes, answered.
Not worth while to
build so much as
one Panopticon, much
less County Penitentiary
Houses
merely to lessen this
distance.
25.
Place in question
not birth place nor
place of legal settlement
but desired abode. p.
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