JB/117/410/002

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Understanding it to
be the same as the Committee
that the
whole of what follows
after the
commencement of the
24th May beginning
with the wait
of the effect of the
open mode letter
conclusion of the
letter had better
be omitted I
have marked inspected it
accordingly as
cancelled
20 May 1811
Jeromy Bentham

Of the effects of the open mode upon the large scale
—of its effect, as well on point of expence as in point
of goodness of management in other points — the experiment
may soon be made: it rests with the Committee
to recommend the making it:— it rests
with Administration to make it:— to have made
it,—within a twelve month.

Of the effect of the close mode upon the small
scale, it rests with the Committee to collect the experience
which practice has furnished:— to collect the
experience,—not only in point of goodness of management
— a topic of no small intricacy, but, what
(I should submitt) would, as being much less exposed
to controversy, be much more conclusive,
the effect in point of expence: and in particular,
that portion of the expence, which would be by
much the most easily and promptly obtained—
the expence of building, stocking, and official establishment.

1. Improved prisons, so many—what under
these several heads has been the expence of each?
2. Upon the plan of management to which it was
adapted — how many, upon an average, how many
at a maximum — has it been found to hold?

An enquiry to the above effect — the more material
& useful, in my humble view of the matter it
promises to be, the stronger of course my expectation,
to find that it has been, or is designed to be, among
the operations of the Committee.

Identifier: | JB/117/410/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	410	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f23 / f24 / f25 / f26
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39027
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