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<p>Establishments I | <p>Establishments I have seldom or ever known an instance | ||
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of their return to Honest Industry — On the contrary | of their return to Honest Industry — On the contrary | ||
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many of them have been detected | many of them have been detected immediately afterwards | ||
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in the Commission of new Crimes from which it may | in the Commission of new Crimes from which it may | ||
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be inferred that | be inferred that this Species of Punishment has not | ||
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answered the intentions of the Legislature so far as | answered the intentions of the Legislature so far as | ||
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have been reclaimed but with so many evil examples | have been reclaimed but with so many evil examples | ||
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before them too often become as hardened at the period | |||
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of their discharge as the worst Class of Felons thereby | |||
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rendering the Establishment a complete Seminary | |||
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of Vice and Wickedness . In giving however such a | |||
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decided opinion against the System of the Hulks I | |||
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would wish to be understood as not imputing the | |||
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smallest blame to the Contractors . The error is in the | |||
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System not in the management : and the evils | |||
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arising from it must continue until a better mode | |||
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is adapted ; whatever the management may be. | |||
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Question 12. Does the Plan proposed by M<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Bentham | |||
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appear to you to contain an <unclear>easy</unclear><!-- the word has been amended as is difficult to decipher --> and practicable | |||
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remedy to those abuses ? | |||
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Answer. It certainly does and its immediate adoption | |||
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would be a most important object to the Public not only | |||
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in a Financial but also in a Moral point of view. | |||
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Establishments I have seldom or ever known an instance
of their return to Honest Industry — On the contrary
many of them have been detected immediately afterwards
in the Commission of new Crimes from which it may
be inferred that this Species of Punishment has not
answered the intentions of the Legislature so far as
relates to the reformation of the Convicts but the chief
cause of the general corruption of Morals which is so
apparent may be traced to their indiscriminate
mixture of hardened and irreclaimable Thieves with
Country Convicts who under other circumstances might
have been reclaimed but with so many evil examples
before them too often become as hardened at the period
of their discharge as the worst Class of Felons thereby
rendering the Establishment a complete Seminary
of Vice and Wickedness . In giving however such a
decided opinion against the System of the Hulks I
would wish to be understood as not imputing the
smallest blame to the Contractors . The error is in the
System not in the management : and the evils
arising from it must continue until a better mode
is adapted ; whatever the management may be.
Question 12. Does the Plan proposed by M<hi rend="superscript">r. Bentham
appear to you to contain an easy and practicable
remedy to those abuses ?
Answer. It certainly does and its immediate adoption
would be a most important object to the Public not only
in a Financial but also in a Moral point of view.
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copy of so much of the / examination of patrick colquhoun esquire / as printed in the appendix to the 28th report of the / committee of finance / (ordered to be printed the 26th of june 1798) |
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