JB/149/139/001

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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 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
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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