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To Ld Sidmouth

Rep. p.66. Separate cells

Objection 2. As upon your plan, by night as well as
day, several males will coexist in the same apartment,
irregularities of the sexual appetite, will, without
any desire or wilful neglect on your part, unavoidably take place.
Therefore for the 600 prisoners, for night residence alone
there can not be fewer than 600 separate apartments.

Answer 1. If I do not at any time make it plain to every the satisfaction of
the appropriate Judges, that in their view of the spot, that in my Panopticon, can consistently with moral
probability no such incidence can, ever be but at the time in question destined to have ever taken place, or ever be about to take place
let me, on that though it were on that sole ground,
be dismissed.

Answer 2 N.B. Practices of this nature had been
for many many years been notoriously prevalent
in the Hulks. Honourable Gentlemen will hardly
say they were not appraised of this. Yet no condemn
has Sentence of condemnation has been passed upon
the Hulks: not so much as any enquiry begun to be
made into them. was The first thing to be done
was to pass sentence of condemnation lay the Ghost of Panopticon on Panopticon,
that being the greatest, or rather that being really the only nuisance, felt
as such.

If these practices can not be put an end to on board
the Hulks, and it be is an object to put really an object
with Honourable Gentlemen to put an end to them, why
confine the Penitentiary establishment to the number of
600? (of which 200 were found upon them by Sir S.
Romilly) – to 600 of whom but 300 males. If they
can be (those practices) be put an end to on board the in the darkness
and close packing of the Hulks, can there be any
difficulty in putting an end to them in a Panopticon,
in which it is a principle that every portion of space that will
hold a human being shall at all times be not only under
the inspection of
the Masters, in numbers
at an hour, useless
in so far as for special reason
otherwise.

Identifier: | JB/118/393/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	393	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a14 / b6 / c3 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39447
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