JB/141/071/002

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If the expence of each prisoner to this promiscuous
intercourse be considered as a part of the punishment
as such it scarcely operates at all among the most
abandoned that is upon those who stand most in
need of punishment. On the contrary with
respect to them it is a circumstance that renders
their imprison imprisonement the less afflictive
as the more since the perpetual tumult with
which they are surrounded and are taking part
engaged in in in them to them from diverts them from the misery of their situation
&saves them withdraws their attention from the conscientious reproaches
to which they might otherwise experience.of their own consciences. It is the more severe then
upon a man in proportion to his general sensibility
that is in proportion as he suffers more from
other sources. It is evidently uncertain unequable
unenviable and unexemplary; producing a variety
of suffering which no man can form any tolerably
adequate idea of who has not experienced them.

But the great and decisiveprincipal & con indeed conclusive objection to it considered
as a punishment, & aggravation of the to the promiscuous association of Prisoners is that of it being
considered as an abuse is to be referred to the headentirely adverse to one of the principal features
of of imprisonment viz. itssubservency to Reformation. Instead of rendering
a delinquent better the evident tendency of it is
to make him worse: and amongst its other pernicious The effects almost
is that of certain with certainty resuslting from it is the
is that of obliteraty of theall Sense of shame; in the mind of
the sufferer or in other words the rendering
him the sufferering for ever after insensible to the force of the moral sanction

The ill effect of the promiscuous associationevil effects thus produced are
of Prisoners is too obvious not to strike even
the most superficial observer. Delinquents
confined together in a small space are corrupted
it is said by the society of each other. This is
the case ordinary mode of expression: there are

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f16 / f15
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48288
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