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S.M. Impr. Imprisonment

The mere circumstance of being confined to a place does not of itself
import any inconvenience. [For] it is no more than
may be said of any every man at all times: for as long
as he has is any where to some place or other he must be confined.
It is the What makes the inconvenience is his being confined to a place against
his will; [that makes the inconvenience] that is, at
a time that he wishes to be in some other place.

Now What is it then that should make him wish
to be in any other place? It is that he may
obtain some pleasure which he thinks he cannot obtain, or
ward of some pain which he thinks he cannot
ward off, in the place in question. To obtain therefore
an accurate idea of the nature of imprisonment,
it is not enough to confine our view to
the thing itself; we must consider it in its⊞ ⊞ concomitant circumstances and consequences.
These consequences are extremely various;
so that as in proportion as more or fewer
of them take place and that in different degrees
we shall have so many very different kinds of
punishment, all confounded under the same name.
These consequences may be They may all of them however be all spoken of under
the name of privation: privation of the means
of repelling pain; and privation of the means of
repelling obtaining pleasure; to which may be added privation
of the means of supporting life: though when this
privation takes place completely the punishment left
changes its nature & its name and becomes
capital punishment.

Identifier: | JB/159/186/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	186	Info in main headings field	imprisonment
Image	002	Titles	nature of the mischief it imports
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54009
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