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3 Prevention against EscapesConstruction
Escape

use of them requires time to work in unvisited unlooked at and
undisturbed.

Shall he climb down descend from story to story by the windows?
The windows afford him no projections on which he
can alight.

Shall he use ropes? — He has no ropes: nor
any materials from which a rope could be made
of at all, without hours upon hours of undisturbed
leisure.

Shall he get rid of the bars by violence?
Violence necessitates noise, which draws brings upon him the watchman
immedia without loss of time.

Can he elude both the eyes and ears sight and hearing of all
the Keepers? He can not of his comrades in the
same cell: and a law of the prison makes them
responsible for connivance. Where ignorance is plainly
impossible, it puts knowledge without information given
upon the footing of assistance.

Suppose all these impossibilities overcome
and that he got down — where is he got down
to? Not to the yards, but to a sunken area
7½ foot below the yards, with a parapet of 12 foot
to climb up before he is in the yards.

Identifier: | JB/119/108/003 "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	003	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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