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IV Management
Separate
Prisoners from
Visitors
This mode of
construction will
be adopted to
suit any plan
of regulation with
regard to visitors
Separation of Prisoners from Visitors
Whether the friends of the prisoners or persons
led by simple curiosity ought to be permitted to
hold any sort of intercourse, and if they ought
what ought to be the nature and limits of that intercourse
are questions which it is not to the comes not within present
purpose to determine. The natural thing is The material thing is, that
that if . In either case the Panopticon
principle Whatever be the regulations adopted on
this head, the Panopticon principle affords means
of carrying them into execution with a degree of effect,
and guarding the execution of them from abuse with
a degree of security altogether peculiar and unexampled to itself.
The annular area wall is a great gulph fixed ditch of from 8 or 20
to 60 feet between the prisoners in all round their cells and their
of all descriptions should they be thought
for to be admitted into the Inspection Galleries.+ Those
who from tenderness might wish not to be seen,
or whom out of regard upon ideas of discipline it
should be thought fir to defer from that privilege
may obtain their view without reciprocation. In
regard
+ It is as against
a it is to all useful
It is a great gulph
fixed: but not
like that between
Dives and Lazarus
to all purposes of
indulgence one
impossible one.
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