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Report
Expence of punishment
N.S. Wales

Security against
return an advantage
partly improper partly
fallacious

The circumstance that appears to operate
principally
seems to constitute the principal
recommendation of the Transportation System
to the public mind, is (as already intimated) the degree of security
it appears to afford against future delinquency
on the part of the individuals thus
punished. But (besides that this is a security
the nature of which is to go on diminishing diminish every day
depending on the weakness of the Colony, and
diminishing as its prosperity encreases) there
is a circumstance inescapably attendant
on this
the security such as it is
depends upon a circumstance which
ever can never cease to present it with a
note of reprobation to the eyes of justice.
Great pains is taken in the face of day
in the first place by the legislature, on the
next by the judicial authority—by Judges
and Juries, to mark out the quantity of
this species of punishment which appears
adapted in point of justice to each case:
some are to be banished for three years to
this immensely distant immense distance from
all that they hold dear, others for 5 years,
others for seven years, a few for 14 years
and more perhaps fewer still for life. Supposing the banishment
really to cease at these respective
periods, the whatever deliberation is employ'd in considering
of



Identifier: | JB/149/139/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

149

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

139

Info in main headings field

police report

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d12

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

49993

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