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1827. Octr. 17
Law Amendments
Propositions
§ Procedure
Proposed ) Cruelty
In better reason can be found for delaying justice
than by this [might seem] for denying it altogether
Even to the guilty the
suffering from this delay
is so much evil expended
in pure
But suppose the individual guilty, what then? include of
being no good whatsoever suffering he experiences is so much — as much
so as if he were innocent, in any every sufferation but that of its contributing
lessen the quantity of suffering capable of being produced in future by offences
of the same head, or at the h offences by the same under head
This evil
Note that this will fall
upon the innocent equally
as upon the guilty
So far as regards other persons considered as being under the temptation to offenders
But what the to this effect, whatever is suffered in this secret way not being known
has no operation: it is therefore so known suffering
expended in waste. Note then the inequality whatsoever may be the assumed standard of culpability and counter that the
burthen of it is just as likely to fall upon the least guilty as upon
the most guilty. Over and above the suffering inflicted on him under
the name of punishment the quantity thus inflicted uponthe most atrocious malefactor may be
more than a day, upon him whose offence is most recent six months all but a day or twelve months.
Contamination by
association an app with the guilty —
evils having their source
in this cause
Much is said not only said but thought
the idea conception from being clear and adequate on the subject of when
on the part of the innocent by association with the guilty
in all the various modes of guilt. The evil To By the
of the legislation in this respect an evil in this shape has unquestionably
its cause.
to the number of individuals thus suffered, and
the length of time during which they are respectively confined, is
the quantity of Jail Room necessitated, and the in the shape of
capital and means the expence of in Jails and Justice.
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BROCKLESBY & MORBEY 1827 |
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Edmund Henry Barker |
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