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11.
B.4.Ch.2
enumeration of these circumstances presentsinspires
a feeling of perfect security.- when we recall
the picture of Botany Bay - the contrast becomes
striking as it can be rendered.
The prevention of crimes on the part of
delinquant prisoners is yetalso in proportion to the
difficulty of their escape: and what system affords
in this respect a security comparable to that of
the Panopticon.
With respect to discharged prisoners
the only absolute guarantee is in their reformation.
Independently of this happy effect
which may be expected in this plan more than
upon any other - the liberated prisoners would for the
most part have acquired by the savings made
for them out of their fourth part of these savingsprofit
of their labour a stock which will place themsecure
them from the immediate temptations of want and
give them time to employ avail themselves of
these resources of industry which they have
acquired during their Captivity.-
But this is not all, I have reserved
for this Chapter the mention of an ingenious plan
which the author of the panopticon has proposed
as a supplement to this pena scheme of punishment -
He has paid particular attention to the
dangerous and critical situation of discharged prisoners.
when reentering the world after a detention perhaps
for many years, they have no friends to receive
them, without reputation to recommend them,
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