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If the expence of each prisoner to this promiscuous
intercourse be considered as a part of the punishment
as such it scarcely operates at all among the most
abandoned that is upon those who stand most in
need of punishment. On the contrary with
respect to them it is a circumstance that renders
their imprison imprisonement the the less afflective
all the more view the perpetual tumult with
which they are surrounded and are taking part
engaged in in them from diverts them from them to the misery of their situation
&saves them withdraws their attention from the conscientious reproaches
to which they might otherwise experience.of their own conscience. It is the more severe then
upon a man in proportion to his general sensibility
that is in proportion as he suffers more from
other sources. It is evidently uncertain unequable
unable and unexemplary; producing a variety
of suffering which no man can form any tolerably
adequate idea of who has not experienced them.
Put the great and decisiveprincipal & con indeed conclusive objection to it con
considered as an abuse is to be referred to the headentirely adverse to one of the principal features
of of imprisonment viz. itssubservancy to Reformation.
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richard smith |
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