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F2 Establishment
F.2 Mr. Bentham to Mr. Nepean 21 sept 199</hi>
Convicts consignable to Panopticon should not be purseposely kept in the Jails.
Reasons - Plan of Jail confinement illegal- uneconomical - Building expence
20 times as great as in Panopticon in Cold Bath Fields- Affords no poss-liberation
employment - Narrowing Panopticon would render the illegality irretrievable.
An Idea I have heard startedstated is that, in regard to such of the
transportable Convicts as, instead of their being disposed of according to the sentence, are
detained in the several County and other Jails, their cost (meaning their cost
to Government) is nothing at all : and that, in that consideration, Economy
might be understood to forbid their being reckoned into the number, for which
accommodation shall be provided in the Penitentiary House. —
On this head I would beg to leave to observe—
1. That the economy would (I humbly apprehend) be found to be apparent only not
real— I have heard no reason for regarding is as proved (and surely it is not a point
to be taken for granted without proof) that the expence of keeping them in those
situations will in itself be less, than that of keeping them in the intented situations will be, at the intended price. In the Penitentiary House their capacity
for labour will be
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Identifier: | JB/121/063/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121. |
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Establishment enlarged etc |
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Mr Bentham to Mr Nepean / Convicts consignable to Panopticon should not be purposely kept in the Jails / Reasons |
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Correspondence |
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Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property. |
F31 / F32 / F33 / F34 |
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See note to letter 1471, vol. 6 |
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