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Imprisonment examined.

"privately recommended to the Magistrates to try solitary
"confinement in prison. This produced the effect
"for in less than twenty-four hours, the daring artful
"plan, chose to hold his hand at the bar, and quietly
"to the Laws, rather than remain in such a solitary
"state, without hope".

The same Gentleman in p.74, mentions a
set of Cells provided for this purpose in Burhenwell
Bridwell by order of the Justices of the Peace
for that division. The prison was kept One
of those Magistrates he says assured him "that
"every person committed to those solitary apartments,
"had been in a few days reformed to an amazing
"degree." The apartments though solitary were
not dark: nor is any thing said about the circumstance
of diet.

Identifier: | JB/159/204/002 "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	204	Info in main headings field	imprisonment examined
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
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	54027
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