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Central Ascent
& Descent
2 buckets one
1 for
the Inspector
empty
2. 1 do. similar
with an equipoise
& a rope
hanging down from
it to the ground
3. A plain bell-rope
without
any
bucket
To ascend
pull the
rope hanging
to the counterpoise
To descend
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Door of the each Cell
Cell-door to
open by a string
or wire passing over a
pulley – the other
end in the lodge
No by a hooked pole
with a hook as
long as the intermediate
area is
wide – to be kept
in the Inspectors
Gallery.
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Belfry & Clock
Bell-beam across
the Central Wing light –
Wing-light therefore
upright not horizontal
Better over the
Governor's House:
viz: in the dead
part of the circle
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Untried prisoners
Their friends
& Attornies to communicate with
them only in
the Sub-Gallery
Lodges.
Therefore these
must be kept
in the Under
Stories.
Objections
1. Uneasiness
2. Unexhaustibility.
3. Prisoners will escape
4. Two may eclipse
one another
Objection to
double Cells
4. One man will
hide another.
Answer – Possible
from one station
in the correspondg
part of the Inspector's
Gallery – impossible
from
all.
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Approach
Circular Place before the
entrance for
Coaches to turn.
The circle inscribed
in the square
of which the front
of the projecting
part forms one
side.
Staircases for Prisoners
It is needless to
multiply the Staircases
for the Prisoners, as each
prisoner will have
to go up and down
but twice a day
and that for exercise.
The minute saving
of time by the
multiplication of
staircases would
not be of the smallest
use.
Identifier: | JB/119/023/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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[[titles::good order / security against mischief / safe custody / health & comfort / central[?] ascent & descent / belfry & clock / untried prisoners / objections]] |
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jeremy bentham |
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