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Prisoners lives —
Reasons for insuring
Reasons
for retaining against striking out the article respecting relative to the insuring of
the Loss of the Prisoners Lives
Principle will be found to concur with precedent in the
recommend use of these othering it
1. and of principle:
This is not in The nature of things any does not afford other expedient
the possible means can be devoted of equal efficacy
for interest in the effecting that union of intimacy of interest between interest and duty
the want of which has been the sole and most universally acknowledged
of the in and abuses which have been so provoked in prisons
Legal penalties can attach only upon flagrant cruelties
This preservative applies to extends the same affords an equal specific acts:
against resulting from petty hardships rendered
upon the wounding — starving or wounding poisoning
to the killing or wounding men outright; they
do not protect them afford very little penalty against destructive habits; against the being killed by
or by neglect: worn out by want of rest or nourishment; poisoned by bad provisions or unwholesome water, or bad and pitions
1. By this means Prison the while the Governor gets a small annual premium for every prisoner kept alive: paying a heavy fine for every one who dies a heavy fine: and this without necessity reason of proof for proof of delinquency or possibility of evasion.
His The publicity which it is so much for the benefit of the service his anxiety the intended first Governor is so anxious to establish, must expose his management of course be attended with the personal inconvenience of exposing his management to a proportionable multitude of complaints. Innocence will protect him be a sufficient protection against specific charges: but the general presumption of good treatment grounded on the evident he will this have in efficiency it will be of the greatest use to him as a defence against vague imputations and superficial prejudices vague imputations it will be a matter of great no small use and comfort to him to have be provided with a short answer, such as the provision in question and nothing else as this and this only can enable him to give — They there [+] If they were many die I am sure to gain lose by it: if few die I am sure to gain by it: if many die I am sure to lose by it [+] can be no ill treatment there without my being myself a sufferer by it
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