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individual who has received instruction in writing, be punished more than another?
because he has acquired possesses Instruction. This
circumstance ought rather to be a reason for indulgence; –
for as his sensibility has been augmented in
general by education; the instructed and
cultivated man will suffer more from
imprisonment than the ignorant and the clownish
man.
On the other hand though the punishment
of imprisonment is inequable it should
be observed that it naturally produces an effect
upon every one. – There is no individual
insensible to the privation of Liberty – to the
interruption of all his habits, and above all especially
of all all his Social habits.
4. Imprisonment is eminently divisible with
respect to its duration. It is also very
susceptible of different degrees of Severity.
5. Under the present system the Exemplarity
of Imprisonment is reduced to the lowest form.
In the Panopticon the facility afforded to the
admission of the public adds much to this branch
ofits utility.
However if the prisoners are not
seen the prison ma is visible. The appearance
of this habitation of penitence may strike the
imagination and awaken a salutary terror. Buildings
employed for this purpose ought therefore to have a character
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