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B.2. Ch.5.
of seclusion and restraint which should take
away all hope of Escape and should say "This
is the dwelling Place of Crime."
6. Simplicity of description. Under this head
there is nothing to be desired. – This Punishment
is intelligible to every degree of such the lowest understanding to all
ages & all capacities. Confinement is an evil of which all with of which every
the world is acquainted body can form an idea and which all
have more or less experienced. The name of a
Prison at once recals those the ideas of punishment suffering
as connected with it.
Let us here stop to examine three
auxiliary punishments, that under special
circumstances and always for a limited time
only may be usefully made to accompany afflictive
imprisonment. These auxiliaries are Solitude
Darkness and Hard Coarse Hard diet. Their distinguishing
merit consists in their subserviency to Reformation.
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