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increase has had one or more of three objects:— prevention
of disease — affording working room — affording
means of separation for Convicts of different descriptions:
sequestration in various degrees of perfection , up to
the pinnacle of penal luxury — total solitude. —

Space for prevention of disease is a most indisputable
improvement , wherever necessary, but an
improvement that has no particular reference to
penitentiary discipline . Of this salutary discipline,
space for separation , space for working , may be
stated as to the two characteristic features , so
far as architecture is concerned . —

In the increase of space for separation ,
reformation , or rather non-increase ofor corruption ,
was the object aimed at . This object will have
been compassed in a greater or less degree of perfection
according to the sufficiency of the architectural
means , and the use made of them in the
management . As far as my opportunities of observation
extended — and the enquiry was once
an object to me — one great obstacle to this end
appears to apply in common , and with scarce
any exception that I could observe , to all these
prisons : I mean the want of compleatness in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	606	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38139
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