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22 Novr 1802 + 2
Letter 5
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XV. Hulk System compared with Penitentiary and
N. S. Wales Systems.
From the foregoing demonstrations — if such by curtesy
at least they may be stiled — may be deduced, in inte
in the form of a corollary, a short estimate on the subject
of the Hulks. In the scale of utility, its place station
would be found, if my judgment does not deceive me,
in the midway between penitentiary imprisonment, taken without
the benefit of the panopticon improvements, and the punishment
of penal colonization, taken on the footing on which it
stands in New South Wales. With the former, it agrees
in respect of its severity from drunkenness with the attendant
miseries and mischiefs: with the latter, in respect of the
promiscuous aggregation; with the universal corruption that issuing
results from it.As a preservative of physical health On the ground of healthiness, meaning physical healthiness as
it is from drunkenness, it may rank not much below
the penitentiary system: on the ground of moral health
as a school of
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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xv hulk system compared with penitentiary and n. s. wales systems |
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correspondence |
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jeremy bentham |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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