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Letter 3d
is among the observations made by the intelligents profes-
sors and practitioners in moral therapeutics in Phila-
delphia, that among those to whose eyes the prospect
of imprisonment under the penitentiary form include every
thing that is most terrible, the prospect of imprisonment
in the ordinary form is a matter of comparative indiffer-
ence. In the unimproved prisons the loss of the liberty of
loco-motion is almost made up for by the absence of labour,
joined to the constant opportunity of congenial conversation,
sweetened by the occasional enjoyment of the means of drunkenness.
On the grounds of reformation, the publication of Mr
Neild, Account of the Society for the discharge of male debt, 1802 just fallen into my hands, offers a comparison not
quite so much much to the advantage of England as could
be wished. In Philadelphia, back sliders not more than 5
in 100 in the course of 5 years, even including the pardoned,
on whom the discipline with its benefits had not been tried.
From Dorchester in 14 years ending with 1807, out of 393 of
both sexes, 242 only stated as being "reclaimed" Neild 98 This is the whole
remainder were supported to be unreclaimed would give more
that 39 in the hundred backsliders. Five in the hundred in
5 years is is each year one: 39 in 14 years is in each year almost 3. "Found reclaimed" however is the word: & it can narrely
be supposed but that some may have been really reclaimed with
-out having been found to be so: death or change of place might be alike
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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604 |
letter 3d |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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