JB/115/107/001

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29 June 1795.

Reasons

For retaining the article relative to the insuring of
the lives of the Prisoners. Principle will be found to concur with precedent in recommending it.
Under the article the Governor gets a small annual premium
for every prisoner kept alive : paying for every one
who dies a heavy fine ; and this without proof of deliquency
or possibility of evasion.

The nature of things does not afford another expedient
of equal efficacy for effecting that intimacy of union between
between interest and duty the want of which has been the
sole and universally acknowledged cause of the miseries and
abuses which have been so notoriously prevalent in prisons.
It applies to this purpose the united powers of
reward and punishment, without the expence of the
one or the hardship of the other : at the same time
that, so far as punishment is concerned , it produces its
effect with that degree of certainty with which nothing
that goes by that name and is administered as such
can ever be attended with. Legal penalties can attack only
upon specific acts : upon the wounding , starving or poisoning
men outright. — They afford very little security
against destructive habits : against the being killed by
inches or by neglect : worn out by want of rest or nourishment :
poisoned by bad provisions or unwholesome
trades and occupations. The

Identifier: | JB/115/107/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1795-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	reasons for retaining the article relative to the insuring of the lives of the prisoners
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37482
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