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<head>Letter 3<hi rend="superscript">d</hi></head> | |||
<note>XVI Improved Prisons</note> | |||
<note>21<lb/> | |||
<del>The</del> contra the<lb/> | |||
patrons of the improved<lb/> | |||
prisons<lb/> | |||
when understood <gap/><lb/> | |||
supported the Panopticon<lb/> | |||
improvement—<lb/> | |||
Those who have<lb/> | |||
thus opposed that<lb/> | |||
improvement are<lb/> | |||
persons too high<lb/> | |||
to think about it.</note> | |||
<p>The conclusion made by the patrons and<lb/> | |||
organizers of the most improved of all these<lb/> | |||
improved prisons has been somewhat different.<lb/> | |||
Yes, my Lord: It is among the most distinguished<lb/> | |||
of its rivals that the panopticon plan has ever<lb/> | |||
found the most cordial of its well-wishers—the<lb/> | |||
most generous of its supporters.</p> | |||
<p>Persons who (one might almost venture to<lb/> | |||
affirm) never saw the inside of a prison in<lb/> | |||
their whole lives—persons by much too high<lb/> | |||
to have ever bestowed upon any such low object<lb/> | |||
any thing that can be called a <hi rend="underline">thought</hi>—persons<lb/> | |||
who are as much at home in "improved"<lb/> | |||
prisons are they are in "improved" Colonies—<lb/> | |||
it is by such lovers of improvement, and by<lb/> | |||
the lovers of such improvements, that the<lb/> | |||
penitentiary system in its <add>most</add> improved form has<lb/> | |||
been consigned to "<hi rend="underline">relinquishment</hi>", and the authority<lb/> | |||
that prescribed it, to contempt.—<lb/> | |||
<add>It was not</add></p> | |||
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Letter 3d XVI Improved Prisons
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The contra the
patrons of the improved
prisons
when understood
supported the Panopticon
improvement—
Those who have
thus opposed that
improvement are
persons too high
to think about it.
The conclusion made by the patrons and
organizers of the most improved of all these
improved prisons has been somewhat different.
Yes, my Lord: It is among the most distinguished
of its rivals that the panopticon plan has ever
found the most cordial of its well-wishers—the
most generous of its supporters.
Persons who (one might almost venture to
affirm) never saw the inside of a prison in
their whole lives—persons by much too high
to have ever bestowed upon any such low object
any thing that can be called a thought—persons
who are as much at home in "improved"
prisons are they are in "improved" Colonies—
it is by such lovers of improvement, and by
the lovers of such improvements, that the
penitentiary system in its most improved form has
been consigned to "relinquishment", and the authority
that prescribed it, to contempt.—
It was not
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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correspondence |
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john herbert koe |
cw 1799 |
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c. abbit lees |
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1799 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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