JB/141/070/002

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The hardship thus produced can scarcely ever
have been the result of a direct intention of on
the part of the government: it is an evil that
no one attempts to defend, and yet while it is
lamented no remedy universally prevalent
and almost as universally lamented, no remedy
caught in a very small number of cases has
been ever applied to it. Reg Regard theSaving of expence
that would be occasioned by making the requisite
arrangement for this purpose has in general
been the ostensible reason is in general alledged
as the reason for not not providing separate
apartments of for the Prisoners. It costs less to
build one large room for all the p capable
of holding all thethe requisite a given number of Prisoners than to provide for
thesesame number separate apartmentsor cells in which they may
remain insulated from each other or be distribute
divided into classes.

If the expence of each to this promiscuous intercourse
be considered as a part of the punishment
as such it scarcely operates at all upon the
most abandoned that is on those who stand
most in need of punishment. It is evidently
not so much inflicted as admitted through the
inattention or supposed inability of gver government
to exclude it: the great and only objection to the
concluding it being the expence of the arrangements
that it would require thus be called for necessary to the accomplishment of that prospect
The advantage then such as it is that it has
to recommend it must be referred to the head
of frugality: it costs less to crowd a multitude
of people together in one room than to provide
for them separate apartments, in which they
might be kept altogether precluded from intercourse
with each other or be distrib distributed
classes more or less numerous mo accordingly to the
nature of their respective offences & the symptoms of reformation betrayed.
manifested.

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Identifier: | JB/141/070/002 "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	070	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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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