JB/119/108/002

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Escapes

The Prisoner is in his Cell. If he makes
his way out of it and from thence out of the building,
it must be at the front, at the rear, or
one side.

1. In front
By the front, I mean out at the windows. To
retard at least his exit that way, he has in
all the stories of Cells from which it would be possible
to drop without disablement or loss of life, a grating
of iron bars. To prevent it he has in the day
time the eye of at least one inspector occasionally constantly
perambulating in that time: and by night that of
a watchman, who though he has three times the
ground to command that any one day-inspector
has commands with at least equal spirit having
no books to keep nor converse to hold nor any thing
to do but perambulate. A The of lantern called a dark lantern serves
him as he makes his round to throw light into
every Cell.

By what means should a Prisoner master even
the slightest grating? By quiet means? such as
the use of a spring minute saws or of corrosive ?
He has not the implements. How should he come by
them? What stranger ever can approach him?
What packet is ever handed to him but through the
intervention of his keep guards? — If he had them, the use

Identifier: | JB/119/108/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	108	Info in main headings field	provision against escapes
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39619
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