JB/141/070/001

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If the expence of each prisoner

This promiscuous assemblage of Prisoners
considered as part of the punishment has no
penal effect upon the most audacious and the
most perverse On the Contrary with reference to them
it renders imprisonment less aff painful becausethe
tumult with which it surrounds them diverts them
from the misery of their situation and from the
reproaches of their consciences - It is therefore
an evil most severe for the prisoner of d
refinement and sensibility - It is an addition
to the punishment of imprisonment evidently
unequable unexemplary and unprofitable.
producing a variety of unknown unknown sufferings unknown
to thosesuch that those only who have not experienced them, can be fully
acquainted with their extent -.

But the great and decisive objection
to the promiscuous assembla association of prisoners
considered as a punishment is that it is directly
opposed to their reformation. - Instead of rendering
a delinquent better its evident tendency is to
make him worse. The ill effect which in the
instance of indellible Infamy is only problematical
is in the instance of this species of hardship
certain: the obliterationIt promises It obliterates of the sense of shame
in the mind of the sufferer: in other words
It produces insensibility to the force of the Moral Sanction

This ill effect of the promiscuous
association of prisoners is too obvious not to strike
even the most superficial speculatorsspectator - Criminals
confined together are corrupted it is said by the Society
of each other. There are a thousand

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Identifier: | JB/141/070/001 "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	070	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f14 / f14
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	dusautoy & rump 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48287
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