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Imprisonment
The circumstances of severity above enumerated
may be regarded as foreign to the nature of imprisonment
considered as a distinct mode of punishment determined
by the Law: for there is none of them but tends
to produce diseases which are apt to terminate in
death. Consider This death is of the afflic much more severer than
the mode of punishment designed inflicted under that name
and that not only than simple death; but even
than the most at afflictive severe of the afflictive kinds
commonly in use. Wheresoever therefore any of these
circumstances occur they bear the f stamp print of abuse
upon the very face of them.
The following inconveniences are inseparable
from the condition of a prisoner, and are of
the essence of this mode of punishment.
NEGATIVE EVILS[9][a] [a] To p.18.
1. Privation of the Liberty of beholding an unlimited variety of rural objects
and other objects that afford amusement to the
eye and imagination.
2. Privation of the Liberty of taking pleasurable exercises that
require a large an unconfined space; such as riding on horseback,
or in a carriage; plu hunting shooting; playing
at cricket, Golf, Bowls &c.
3. Privation of the Liberty of exercising any function of Magistracy,
or any public trust: as for instance in this country
that
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