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IX. To pay a penal sum for every escape, with or without any default of his, irresistible violence from without excepted; and this without employing irons on any occasion, or in any shape.
X. To provide them with spiritual and medical assistants, constantly living in the midst of them, and incessantly keeping them in view.
XI. To pay a sum of money for every one who dies under his care, taking thereby upon him the insurance of their lives for an ordinary premium: and that at a rate grounded on an average of the number of deaths, not among imprisoned Felons, but among persons of the same ages in a state of liberty within the Bills of Mortality.
XII. To lay for them the foundation-stone of a provision for old-age, upon the plan of the Annuity Societies.
XIII. To insure to them a livelihood, at the expiration of their terms, by setting up a Subsidiary Establishment, into which all such as thought proper, should be admitted, and in which they would be continued in the exercise of the trades in which they were employed during their confinement, without any further expence to Government.
XIV. To make himself personally responsible for the reformatory efficacy of his management, and even make amends, in most instances, for any accident of its failure, by paying a sum of money for every Prisoner convicted of a Felony after his discharge, at a rate, increasing according to the number of years he had been under the Proposer's care, viz. a sum not exceeding Iol. if the Prisoner had been in the Penitentiary panopticon one year: not exceeding 15l. if two years; not exceeding 20l. if three years; not exceeding 25l. if four years; not exceeding 30l. if five years or upwards; such sum to be paid immediately on conviction, and to be applied to the indemnification of the persons injured by such subsequent offence, and to be equal in amount to the value of the injury, so long as it did not exceed the sums respectively above specified.
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proposal / for / a new and less expensive mode / of / employing and reforming convicts |
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see note 4 to letter 1340, vol. 6; this copy has bentham's additions based on william morton pitt's suggestions in letter 1126, vol. 5 |
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