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1827. Octr. 17
Law Amendments

Propositions
§ Procedure
Proposed ) Cruelty

No better reason can be found for delaying justice
than by this [might seem] for denying it altogether

Even to the guilty the
suffering from this delay
is so much evil expended
in pure events

But suppose the individual guilty, what then? include of
being no good whatsoever suffering he experiences is so much not as much
so as if he were innocent, in any every supposition but that of its contributing
lessen the quantity of suffering capable of being produced in future by offences
of the same kind, or at the h offences committed by the individual.

This evil
Note that this evil falls
upon the innocent equally
as upon the guilty

So far as regards other persons considered as being under the temptation to offenders
But what the to this effect, whatever is suffered in this secret way not being known
has no operation: it is therefore so much known suffering produ
expended in waste. Note then the inequality whatsoever may be the assumed standard of culpability and counter that the
burthen of it is just as likely to fall upon the least guilty as upon
the most guilty. Over and above the suffering inflicted on him under
the name of punishment the quantity thus inflicted upon the most atrocious malefactor may be no
more than a day, upon him whose offence is most recent six months all but a day or twelve months.

Contamination by
association an app with the guilty —
evils having their source
in this cause

Much is said not only said but thought — how you receive
the idea conception one form being clear and adequate on the subject of continuation when
continuation on the part of the innocent by association with the guilty
in all the various modes of guilt. The evil which To In the negligence
of the legislation in this respect an evil in this shape has unquestionably
its cause.

Proportioned to the number of individuals thus suffered, and
the length of time during which they are respectively confined, is
the quantity of Jail Room necessitated, and the in the shape of
capital and means the expence of in Jails and Justice.

Identifier: | JB/056/168/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 56.
Date_1	1827-10-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	056	Main Headings	Law Amendment
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	Law Amendments
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks	BROCKLESBY & MORBEY 1827
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer	Edmund Henry Barker
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	18224
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