JB/119/267/001

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Panopticon Bill Escape

Sect XI intitled Escapes

1. Punishment for
Escape, attempts &
preparations, with
and without force

Art.1. And whereas no punishment can be
so certain of being an object of terror to an offender
who mediates escape from any place of punishment
or so likely to fix itself in his mind, as a prolongation
of the same punishment in the same place.
And Whereas the reducing the punishment
of an offence unconsummated in comparison of
that of the same offence consummated may in
case of hesitation served to turn the scale, and stop
the progress of the Offender in the career of guilt,
Be it enacted that for escapes from the said
Penitentiary House and for offences relative thereto,
the punishments shall be as follows: viz.

For escaping, from or during conveyance to
or from the Penitentiary House or any other place
in which Prisoners shall or may be kept by the
authority of the said Governor, Confinement in
the Penitentiary House for one year in addition
to a further time equal to what remained of the
Prisoner's term at the time of the offence: for attempting
to escape, half such compound term:
for making preparation in the view of escaping,
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	267	Info in main headings field	panopticon bill
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