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VI/2/1
Hulks necessity of D
VI Expense of punishment
3. Hulks
3. Third modification of chronical punishment —
Transportation in this form is shape
confinement to hard labour in or by
frugal punishment: at first the occupation
means of a floating prison called a contract
required £ 9: afterwards he was found
Hulk. . . .
to do his work for nothing. It rid this
country of the expence inseparable from simple
imprisonment. and it rid the country
of the sinners for a longer time than
simple imprisonment consistently with
the principles established by Magna
Charta could, it was thought
When upon the revolt defection of North America
the market for forced transported labour was shut up
something was to be thought of established in the room of
it. The Penitentiary system, that is forced labour
in a prison upon a large scale under Masters acting
on account of government, and thereby under
special controul of government was thought of
in that view. But the Penitentiary system
supposed a prison: and that prison so vast was was to be,
that five years on sometime the most sanguine computation
so vast, that the building of it was to be the
would be were to have been employd in the
erection of it. work of years. Hulks being to be found already
in existence presented a temporary prison, but a prison temporary designed
at first for a temporary
one, but at any rate
that an immediate and a cheap one. Stationed oin the
River Thames in at a part of it the River which required
deepening the bed of the River presented a subject
matter to operate upon. Thirty eight pound
a year per man,
was the price paid at the
outset for the Board and
Lodging of a felon, which
so many honest and industrious families of
five or six to a family
were subsisting and subsisting
in comfort upon less
than half the money.
£ 38,000 for every thousand
men (and more than 2,000 have been oftentimes boarded upon this plan) was the price of this new invented
engine of chronical punishment, substituted
on the sudden to one the old one that had not cost nothing.
This £ 38,000 was not all of it pure expence:
labour was extracted for it: the value of that the
labour thus performed by prisoners was
valued worth £ that is it would have
been worth that money, if money to that amount
had either been saved or gained by it: but that this
was the case on the whole, or with any part of it,
seems rather to have been affirmed than proved. Little
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