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12 Dec 1802 +16 Letter 3d (5

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2 Cause of the deficiency
in point of
economy in the
prison
— shortness of the terms
thence waste of time
for profit after instruction in compensation
for loss by of said

Upon the principles I have thus ventured to point to,
on In the improved local prisons in question, one drawback from the goodness such of things I mean as
present or future, are drawbacks from the goodness
of the economy — one great drawback and that an unavoidable
one — is the smallness of the scale. Another is the
shortness of the term which, in these receptacles for petty offenders, the imprisoned hands have to
learn the business in, and afford a compensation, for the
time and materials consumed in work without profit, during
the season of primaeval awkwardness.

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Under these disadvantages, I can not look upon it
together with that which results from the differences between the par value wages of labour,
as compared with the expence of maintenance, here and in America,
I should not expect to find it within the compass
18
3 Cause — cheapness
of rough labour in comparison
of the first
Disincrease of province
in the English
Counties compared
with Philadelphia
of human talent ability, through devoted exclusively in the service,
to bring the improved English prisons here in question upon a land
in point of economy with that of Philadelphia. It is not
without surprize that in some instances within my reach
Dorsetshire in particular (Oxfordshire I have but an indistinct recollection of)</add> I have observed in how meritorious to which a degree
these obstacles have been overcome. I verily believe should expect to find (but
I beg leave to stand excused from the thankless labour necessary
to speak with certainty) I verily believe should much expect to find Dorsetshire, even
with the Blackburn millstone about his neck would be
found to stand above New York.

4

19)
The efficacy of the
System can not
be made so clear
in the local prisons
as in the State
prison at Philadelphia
especially as the
there is
owing in great
to the abolishing of punishment.
In these home instances the grand misfortune is, that
in regard to the main object — the object with which is the main object reference to which example
in respect of the decrease of crimes, the practicals that requite
and reformation itself themselves are but as means to an end — I mean the decision
which is the ultimate and only intrinsically fruit
of crimes and the true measure of the utility of the system as the the ultimate
<add> and to </add> way of reformation and — example and with reforms to which in respect to this subject and almost only
valuable
that the ground that
of these local
prisons as that
reformation and example are but as money — circumstances
do not admitt of as their affording such any such rates factory
proofs of their efficacy as in
evidence as the more favourable situation of the Pennsylvania <add>the Philadelphia prison
may be and have been — why? because the
enabled it to afforded: the good effects of the discipline of these good
jails being are to such a degree drowned in the bad effects of the surrounding bad ones. (a) In
(a)Note in two other pages.
Pennsylvania

Identifier: | JB/116/552/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-19
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	552	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38085
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