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30 Mar 1802
3. Jail Improvements

P [ ]: To The want of this means of ensuring the conjunction
of real with nominal inspection – was it not, in the instance
of the Middlesex County Jail in Coldbath Fields,
the cause, and the sole cause, of the consumption
which Parliament thought it necessary to make of its
own time (not speak of the time of Parliamentary a set of special
Commissioners together with a small matter of public
money) in the investigation of abuses or supposed abuses?
– apropos such as in the nature of things could never
have existed in a prison building upon the Panopticon plan
– the central inspection plan – nor can be effectually
prevented any where else.

The use of the Panopticon principle in this particular
view stands among the advantages pointed
out in 1791 in the book, already mentioned – in a
passage for which in consideration of its almost predictive
appositeness I will beg Your Lordships indulgence here.
"Another


Identifier: | JB/121/248/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.

Date_1

1802-03-30

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

121

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

248

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

E1

Penner

Watermarks

1800

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

001

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