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General Imprisonment Scheme &c

could not be prevented without instituting establishing a search
too troublesome and humiliating to be executed with
the strictness requisite to produce the effect. answer the purpose.
But food articles so bulky as those of food and
liquors might easily be excluded. A regulation
Such an institute tend in no inconsiderable
degree to promote restitution. At present in all
offences of rapacity that is in 19 out of 20 of
the felonies crimes that are committed* * See Howard's Tables the greater a man's
guilt has been, the more mischief he has done,
the better he fares while he is in prison. It is
seldom that the whole produce of the crime is
found upon the delinquent at the time of his
being apprehended: and if though it be found on him, if
it consists in money it is seldom that it can be
cannot be identified identified in such manner as to warrant the restitution
of it against the consent of the delinquent.
Commonly if it be not spent it is in the hands
of some friend of the delinquent an associate
in iniquity, a wife or mistress. Thus secured it
is banished disposed of at his direction, and others lavished
either in debauchery or in feeing lawyers to use the
learned endeavours for obstructing obstruct the course of Justice.

When therefore the plunder is of no use to him
it will require a much less effort on his part to restore it to
the right owner. The workings of conscience will be
powerfully

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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	004	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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