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in their case is to be done? —Are they to be simply
Empowered (for which I should suppose
some fresh Act or Acts would be found necessary)
—are they to be simply empowered, or is any and
what course to be taken for compelling them?

Supposing the experiment of the open mode upon
the large scale made, this much, any at any rate,
may, as to this point, be observed, viz. that should
if prove successful, whatsoever disposition there
may be at present to institute improved prisons
in the close made upon the small scale, will,
by the information thus afforded, not be increased,
but will, if not altogether extinguished, be at least
diminished.

Even at present — while, for such a length of time,
the close mode upon the small scale has been the
only mode — while, for such a length of time, the
experiment of the open mode upon the large scale
has been kept back (will it be believed) for the express
and allowed purpose of forcing the Counties into the
into the adoption of the rival mode, viz. the close
mode upon the small scale—(the expence of it being,
for the purpose of this partial experiment, considered
as nothing) — the result has been — what will have
been seen.

Suppose the, that, upon the result of the comparative
experiment, man for man, the expence
of the close mode upon the small scale should
prove some number of times greater than that of the
open

Identifier: | JB/117/411/001 "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	411	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f27 / f28 / f29
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	39028
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