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Imprisonment examined.

as are ordinarily to be found in Prisons (which
are the only persons with whom we are concerned at
present) the influence of the Religious Sanction is
more salutary than pernicious, and that the with condition
of him who is withdrawn from become insensible to that influence
may properly be spoken of as a corrupted.[a]

NOTE.

[a] Those who would like to see the same proposition
urged in a pathetic strain and without any of
those restrictions which seemed proper to be given to
it on the present occasion may consult, the above mentioned those writings of Mr Hanway's. that have been mentioned.

In The third and last of the ways in which the
association of malefactors in prisons tends contributes to corrupt
them is by encreasing their skill and by that
means their power of carrying their mischievous
propensities whatever may be into practise.

That their conversation will naturally turn upon
their criminal exploits has been already shewn.
Each malefactor will be giving a detail of the several
feats of ingenuity which in the course of the
exploits the occasion led him to practise. These
feats will naturally be noted down were it only on the score of curiosity. But as means of gratifying
those propensities which the situation in question
would as we have shewn already have a strong tendency
to strengthen and confirm they will make a much
more

Identifier: | JB/159/202/004 "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	202	Info in main headings field	imprisonment examined
Image	004	Titles	religious sanction
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34 / f35 / f36
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54025
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