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additional security to those modes of confinement,
of which in the present state of things the inefficiency
has so frequently been seen to betray itself.

To such of the convicts, as it might be thought fit
to give employment to, in the Panopticon at large,
and thence without the limits of the enclosed area,
true it is that no more than a part of the above securities,
nor that the most considerable part, would be found
applicable.

But, considering that the time of say light would
be the only time at which the demand or use for any
such employment would present itself; considering,
that, in fact, in the many public works on which
convicts have now for so many years been employed,
they have been employed in large numbers, and (as
supposed) without any particular means of selection
or anxiety on that head, and that too under
slight guard, and yet, at those times at least without
any instance (I believe) of escape; considering, that
the passion by which a prisoner is prompted to seek,
by violent means and at the hazard of his life, a relief
from durance, is not likely to be found in equal
strength in the breast of every individual member,
of a society so numerous and so miscellaneous,
considering, that in the mode of treatment which
is essential to a system of commercial operation
conducted upon the plan in question, there is
nothing that seems to present a probability of its
being productive of any exertion more violent and
desperate

Identifier: | JB/117/421/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	20-21
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	421	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39038
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