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14 April 1811 1
Panopticon Memorandum — for Construction and Management
James Waklin
a Porter to watch
the <gap/. & Yard
1. All the entrances at
the same spot:
that one Porter m and
one inspection may
serve for all.
2. The porter should be
inspection from
the Lodge if possible.
<p. 3. Entrance for the Convicts
and the convicts
friends narrow:
that their
escape by a sudden rush
4. For the same reason it
might be made long,
as the entrance must be
or those other places
viz. by grated doors
above
5. the maximum of narrowness
will be determined
by need of entrance for
machinery &c
6. to Officer's
apartments from without
without need of going in to
the Lodge.
7. For that purpose the form
of the building might be
made square: as here
has drawn, before the
, forming a lanyard
to the existing wall
8. the present entrance to the
Officer's apartments should
also be commanded by the
same Parties
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9. the area to
be warmable by exterior
fires on the plan paired with the Check taker.
10. The cells and Lodge
by changeable air puffing
through tubes —
the tubular plan.
11. to for
it between, and belonging
in common to, each pair
of To the common
a paper to be
adapted frome ach all<lb?> such paper furnished with<lb?> a stopper, to keep in the
scent.
the dorr in each ad
cell to enclose a <gap/.
space into which the <gap/.
vapour is : the
door to fit in close with
to keep in scent: to
<add> be kept locked; opened only once
a day for the emptying.
A dining service,
on a lounge.
12. Make an
of the several
requisite for the several purposes,
that the ,
and mode of access
to them may be determined
13. To each Officer's apartment
a passage
<add>(by the side where a visitor may
find
and repose, which through
a conversation tube he
talks to him in the Lodge
14. On each apartment
entrance, passage, &c
its denomination and
function in large gold
or black letters.
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Being distinguished
by his number, each prisoner
to have attached
to him a certain number
of pots of plants six or more marked
each of them by his number
By this means on finding
when the time for decoration<lb?> comes, the prisoners being
marched up in order to the
Greenhouse at will
bring down each of them
his pots, to help decorate<lb?> the front of his cell.
15. To ensure sufficient
bathing, the the
bathing pond in such
form as divide it in that
such manner that each
bather may go in at
the place and
at another: at which he<lb?> has previously deposited
his clothing +
or
For washing, allow a
sponge attached to
string, or a piece of
woollen .
The Bathing-room may
be in the bottom floor, on
< a level with the Cooking
Room, Coal Hole,
&c
Inspections during bathing
off the Convicts
prisoners
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jeremy bentham |
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