JB/141/065/002

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Imprisonment

The circumstances of severity above enumerated
may be regarded as foreign to the nature of imprisonment
considered as a distinct mode
of punishment determined by the law: for there
is none of them but tends to produce diseases
which are apt to s terminate in death, that that
too of a nature more severe than that of the
most afflictive kinds commonly in use. Wheresoever
therefore any of these circumstances occurr they
bear the stamp of abuse upon the very face of
them.

The following inconveniences are comparable
from the condition of a Prisoner, & are of the essence
of the mode of punishment.

I. Negative Evils*

1. Privation of the liberty of beholding an unlimited
variety of rural objects whether in town or within
country that afford amusement to the eye and
imagination.

2. Privation of the liberty of taking pleasurable exercises
that require an unconfined space such as riding
on horseback or in a carriage, hunting, shooting &c.

3. Privation of the liberty of exercising public function of magistracy
or any public trust as for instance in this
country that of Justice of the Peace &c.

Note

* I term them negative evils since all they amount
to in the first instance is the privation of so many
pleasures, though in their more remote consequences
they may be productive of positive pains.

Identifier: | JB/141/065/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	simplicity of description
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4 /
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48282
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