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Whoever has any thing new to offer to the
public is concerned as well in point of duty
as in point of prudence to do his utmost towards
the finding out in turn what objections
may be made to it. I have lost no opportunity
of doing so in the present instance: and
the following are all the observations of that sort
I have been able to collect.
1. That the prisoners would make their escape
from a building of this sort. This was An
observation to this effect was made, if I understand
aright by persons whose opinion has an indubitable
title to respect: though on what circumstances
belonging to it the apprehension was grounded
I have not happened to be informed. The
circumstance that distinguishes this mode of construction
from every other is that in consequence
of it every prisoner thus confined is for a great
part of his time actually under the inspection
of a keeper, and for the whole that during no part of it capable
of assuring himself that he is not in that predicament
Identifier: | JB/119/070/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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