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Imprisonment – Fees

in the case the want of which is wanting to make makes the difference between
an intult and a just demand. it a just demand instead of an a cruel insult.

But the Gaoler like every other servant of the State
[must be paid] it will be said and with perfect truth must
be paid satisfied for his trouble; and who more fit than the
person who occasions it? I answer any body person whatever;
if contrary to the most obvious dictates of political principles of justice
oeconomy, some one person must bear the whole
charge of a measure an institution which if beneficial to any
is beneficial to all. I say any body; because there
is no person whose clear benefit from the punishment
of the criminal (⊞ ⊞ I am speaking here of the judicial, appointed punishment, the imprisonment; and I mean clear benefit after inconvenience
has been deducted) is not greater than the
criminals. This would hold good were the peculiar circumstances
of the criminal, under out of the question: but
when these come to be considered, they give additional add considerable
force to the above conclusion. In the case of
19 criminals delinquents out of 20 the utter want of all
means of paying satisfying their lawful debts was the very cause
and motive to the crime. This being the case, in 19 cases out of 20 Now then, whereas it is
only possible in the case of another man a man taken at random
that he has not wherewithal to pay, it is certain
that in nineteen cases out of twenty the delinquent has not.

So powerful is the force of custom that for a long
series of years, Judges of the first rank and Country
Magistrates, none of whom but would have taken it ill enough
to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	063	Info in main headings field	imprisonment - fees
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / e2 / e3 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::ac propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	folio now in 2 pieces	ID Number	48280
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