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Convict Proposal New South Wales

Hitherto the great difficulty has been supposed to
be be in the ensuring employment to such as would be willing
to accept it: but some of them may make no such
option

Note
The security thus afforded for their good behaviour it
must be confessed is not so entire as that afforded by
the present colonisation plan of transportation which under the name of
transportation for various terms is in effect transportation for
life. Neither can it be made so without a fresh law to compel
them such of them continue them notwithstanding them each prisoner on pain of continuing in the Penitentiary establishment, to
make his option between the army service the navy service
or an engagement from year to year in the subsidiary
establishment, unless he can find a responsible person to
stand security in a moderate sum from year to year for his maintenance &
good behaviour. from year to year Such obligation, if
inflicted by law may seem an arbitrary a hard and unjust extension
of the original sentence: but the utmost of such hardship and
injustice is nothing trifling in comparison of that which they undergo
at present by a perversion of the law. It is upon this very perversion that all But the advantage
in this point of view reaped from the colonisation
plan actually depends: upon
after if a man in consequence of being legally sentenced for 7 years
term of years a man is physically detained for life, then the perversion takes place: law is perverted

Identifier: | JB/119/089/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	convict proposal
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39600
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