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B 2.Ch.12
Fourth Object Compensation to the party
injured
In most systems of jurisprudence
when a delinquent has been corporally punished
heJustice is thought to have been satisfied, it is not
in generally required that he should make compensation should be
made to the party injured
It is true that in the greater number
of cases compensation could not be exacted of him.
Delinquents are commonly of the poorer class, ex nihilo,
nihil fit.
If they are idle during their imprisonment,
far from being able to render satisfaction, they constitute
a charge upon Society.
If they are condemned to public works,
these works, are rarely sufficiently lucrative to cover
the expense of undertaking them would notcannot furnish
any surplus.-
There is no other place whichIt is only in a place like the Panopticon
in which by the combination of labours and economy
in the administration it is possible to obtain a
profit sufficiently great to offer at at least some
portion of indemnity to the parties injured - Mr Bentham
had made engagements upon this head in his Contract
with the Ministers - In the prisons of Philadelphia
they levy upon the portion of profit they allowed to the
prisoners. The expenses of his detection and prosecution:-
One step more and they will grant indemnity to
the parties injured-
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