JB/143/016/001

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Execution ofPunishments

Penitential Imprisonment
When a man is sentenced to penitential imprisonment
his punishment shall be as follows

1. He shall be confined in a the black dungeon dark
as pitch for the time mentioned in his sentence

2. No one shall have access to him but the Officers
of the Prison.

3. He shall have nothing but straw to be on.

4. His diet shall be For his diet he shall have nothing but the bread of affliction
and the water of affliction.

5. The bread of affliction is bitter bread: the
water of affliction is bitter water.

Instructions to the Legislator
Observations

Observations The particular composition of this bread and
water should be determined by some general regulation
after consultation had with the medical
faculty. The objects purposes of this kind of punishment
are to break the spirit of the patient, and make
him suffer the pains of hunger and as much
as may be without any lasting prejudice to his health. The
business therefore will be to make his food as
nauseous as it can be without being so as to be eatable and not to
be unwholesome.

Identifier: | JB/143/016/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	punishments
Image	001	Titles	instructions to the legislator
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48649
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