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<head>Letter VII. Uses Penitentiary - houses - Safe - custody.</head> | |||
<p>that, if you were to be asked, who had most cause to wish for its adoption,<lb/><note>164</note> | |||
you might find yourself at some loss to determine, between the malefactors<lb/>themselves, and those for whose sake they are consigned to <sic>punnishment</sic>.—<lb/></p> | |||
<p>In this view I am sure you cannot overlook the effect which<lb/>it would have in rendering unnecessary that inexhaustible fund of disproportionate,<lb/>too often needless, and always unpopular severity, not to say<lb/>extortion, the use <!-- written large --> of <hi rend="underline">iron</hi>s <!-- written large -->. Confined in one of these Cells, every motion<lb/>of the limbs and every muscle of his face exposed to view, what pretence<lb/><unclear>could/would</unclear> there be for exposing to this hardship the most boisterous malefactor?<lb/></p> Indulged with perfect liberty within the space allotted to him, in<lb/>what worse way cold he vent his rage than by beating his head against<lb/>the walls? and who but himself would be a sufferer by such Folly?<lb/>Noise, the only offence by which a man thus encaged could render himself<lb/> troublesome (an offence by the bye against which irons themselves<lb/>afford no security) might, if found otherwise incorrigible, be subdued<lb/>by <hi rend="underline">gagging</hi>: a most natural and efficacious mode of prevention<del>,</del> as well<lb/>as pun<del>n</del>ishment, the prospect of which would probably be forever sufficient,<lb/>to render the infliction of it unnecessary. Pun<del>n</del>ishment,<lb/>even in its most <del>horrid</del> <add>hideous</add> forms, loses its | |||
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Letter VII. Uses Penitentiary - houses - Safe - custody.
that, if you were to be asked, who had most cause to wish for its adoption,
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you might find yourself at some loss to determine, between the malefactors
themselves, and those for whose sake they are consigned to punnishment.—
In this view I am sure you cannot overlook the effect which
it would have in rendering unnecessary that inexhaustible fund of disproportionate,
too often needless, and always unpopular severity, not to say
extortion, the use of irons . Confined in one of these Cells, every motion
of the limbs and every muscle of his face exposed to view, what pretence
could/would there be for exposing to this hardship the most boisterous malefactor?
Indulged with perfect liberty within the space allotted to him, in
what worse way cold he vent his rage than by beating his head against
the walls? and who but himself would be a sufferer by such Folly?
Noise, the only offence by which a man thus encaged could render himself
troublesome (an offence by the bye against which irons themselves
afford no security) might, if found otherwise incorrigible, be subdued
by gagging: a most natural and efficacious mode of prevention, as well
as punnishment, the prospect of which would probably be forever sufficient,
to render the infliction of it unnecessary. Punnishment,
even in its most horrid hideous forms, loses its
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