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Liancourt
Page 6. "Criminals, loaded with irons, and scattered through
"the streets, and along the roads, presented to the public the
"spectacle of vice rather than of shame and misery; and the
"impossibility of watching them properly, facilitated the means
"of excess, of drunkenness, of pillage, and of escape. All the
"prisoners, whatever might have been their crimes, or their
"characters, were confounded in one mass. By this mixture, the
"bad were not ameliorated, but the less criminal often became
"worse. They spread terror over town and country; and far from
"being put in the way of amendment, became initiated in
"new scenes of wickedness, till the prisons were found incompetent
"to contain the incr increasing number of the convicted."—
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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liancourt |
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john herbert koe |
tw 1794 |
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francis hall |
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1794 |
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37575 |
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