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PROPOSAL
FOR
A NEW AND LESS EXPENSIVE MODE
OF
EMPLOYING AND REFORMING CONVICTS.
The Author, having turned his thoughts to the Penitentiary System from its first origin,
and having lately contrived a Building in which any number of persons may be kept within
the reach of being inspected during every moment of their lives, and having made out, as he
flatters himself, to demonstration, that the only eligible mode of managing an Establishment
of such a nature, in Building of such a construction, would be by Contract, has been in-
duced to make public the following Proposal for Maintaining and Employing Convicts in
general, or such of them as would otherwise be confined on board Hulks, for 25 per
cent. less than it costs Government to maintain them there at present; deducting also the
average value of the work at present performed by them for the Public: upon the terms
of his receiving the produce of their labour, taking on himself the whole expence of the BUILDING,
fitting up and locking*, without any advance to be made by Government for that purpose,
requiring only that the abatement and deduction above mentioned shall be suspended for the
first year.
Upon the above-mentioned Terms, he would engage as follows:
I. To furnish the Prisoners with a constant supply of wholesome Food, not limited in
quantity, but adequate to each man's desires.
II. To keep them clad in a state of tightness and neatness, superior to what is usual
even in the Improved Prisons.
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proposal / for / a new and less expensive mode / of / employing and reforming convicts |
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see note 4 to letter 1340, vol. 6; this copy has bentham's additions based on william morton pitt's suggestions in letter 1126, vol. 5 |
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