JB/121/246/001

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29 Mar 1802
3 Jail Improvements

As to the features of improvement improvements in their
favourite receptacles of improvement improved prisons, compared with the expence
at which their purchased accept; my Lord, a bird's
eye view of them – Numbering Prisoners' Apartments, are to each prisoner,
besides common ones: partitions thick under
the notion of preventing escapes and intercourse –
therefore proportionably expensive. Prisoners, each
at all times within sight or hearing, or both,
of other prisoners: at some time, possessing all of
them, the unrestricted faculty of intercourse with
one another in any numbers. Keepers apartments
at out of sight and hearing of all the
prisoners – ⊞ Prisoners, cut off from communication with one another to every useful purpose: employments to which communication is not necessary shut out in consequence. Result, Result, the expence and inconvenience
of separation, with scarce any of the advantage
aimed at by it.

In a word in a Panopticon prison great effects
by simpler means little causes: in other prisons little effects
from great causes.

God forbid I should say, or be understood to say that
among the alledged features of improvement there were not real
& even considerable ones. – The absence of the Jail Fever is
certainly better – far better – that the presence of it. But as
certainly a prison in which that absence is purchased
at a less expence is ceteris paribus better than a prison
at which it is pun purchased at a greater expence: – and
the question is – not between the improved and the unimproved
prison, but between the improved prisons such as exist
already, and a prison upon the plan of the Panopticon Penitentiary House.

Identifier: | JB/121/246/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-03-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	246	Info in main headings field	3 Jail Improvements
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F13
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	001
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