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to the health and lives of the prisoners, and he can
not think of medd setting foot on it and guarded protected
from his enterprizes by a rampart fence obstacle which he confesses
he wants courage to attack overleap. It is situated
as low as if not lower than the River: it is ill
protected from the River by an Earth Wall: it
contains not the smallest eminence: not a square foot of Land
which in a wet season is secure against inundation.
Your Memorialist has It has been survey'd
and traversed and survey'd by your Memorialist with a de over
and over with a degree of interest proportioned to
the commercial advantage which it holds out so conspicuously with
so prominent a hand: in such conspicuous characters but at no time without manifest
exercising as in effects upon his health which were as sensible as
they were alarming without producing effects upon
his health too alarming to pass unnoticed. The d apprehensions
he was thus led to entertain; by his own
experience have been confirmed by reports the report
of reports which presented themselves even without enquiry.
Your Lordship as your Memorialist
humbly conceives can not be yet to learn that
It can not be now to your Lordships nor will it
as your Memorialist humbly conceives appear
disputable to your Lordship that in point of fact
places situations and modes of living that were might be tolerably healthy to
men in a state of liberty are pestitential to prisoners:
that because men can not and perhaps might
not
under that objection
of spirits mind which in
many individuals is
among the sufferings
resulting from imprisonment
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Jeremy Bentham |
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