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6 May 1811
Panopticon. J.B. to Penitentiary Committee. Letter III. Country Convicts
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II Objection 2.d
II. Objection 2d : Inordinate accumulation of convicts for whom
provision will be to be found after discharge.

Answer. upon the Panopticon plan, there will be the
Subsidiary Establishment, open to as meany as may
choose to take the benefit of it. Some will, some will
not:— but whatever may be the proportion of the one number
to the other, and whatever may be the sum of the two
numbers, the exclusive choice of the metropolis does not,
to my apprehension, present itself in the shape of
an inconvenience.

On the character of a reservoir for the influx
in question, the option lies between the metropolis
and some country town.— some other town within
the Circuits of South Britain. The metropolis
will, it is true, already have to provide for the
influx from its own Panopticon. But, taking into
account the magnitude of the influx in both
cases, compare the magnitude of the map of population reservoir
into which the influx will have to discharge
itself in this case, (—say in round numbers
a million) with the magnitude of the largest map reservoir
into which it can be set to dis—charge
itself in the case of any other such Town—say 80,000:—
By this comparison, all apprehension on this score,
will, it should seem, will be dissipated.

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III Objection 3. Remoteness of the Convicts from their respective
desired abodes at the time of discharge.

Answer. 1. Merely for the purpose of facilitating, on the
part of prisoners after their discharge, the return to their

Identifier: | JB/117/426/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	24
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	426	Info in main headings field	panopticon jb to penitentiary committee letter iii
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39043
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