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Imprisonment General Scheme &c

The diet in many prisons is in part provided
for by private benefactions. Such benefactions
are of use only upon supposition of that they
inattention gross negligence on the part of government of
which they are a pregnant evidence point testimony. The demand
a man in the situation in question has for food is not at all varied
by the happening or not happening performance or non performance of a casual
act of humanity by a chance individual. Whatever
be enough the proper allowance they ought
to have it, whether a legacy as much although any no private benefaction
were given for that purpose: they ought not
to have more, were the amount of such benefactions ever so
considerable. If ever the Legislature should fulfill
this obvious and important necessary duty, all such
private benefactions ought be should be taken into
the hands of the public. [Nothing culd be further
than the slap from a violation of the wills
of the benefactors]. This would or Such resumption far from being
a violation of the wills of the benefactors would
be fulfilling them in the compleatest a more complete execution of them than any
they could have hoped for.

For the same reason all casual benefactions
that of particular persons to particular delinquents
should be prevented. The way to this is not
to prevent the money's being given; but to prevent
its being spent at least in food and liquors: the introduction of money
could

Identifier: | JB/141/076/003 "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	076	Info in main headings field	chapter vii general scheme of imprisonment
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48293
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