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Conceiving that felons have forfeited their
Claim to the Protection & Benefits of Society —
I think that their management should be Cautious
so as not to Create an
Expence to the State but that the State should
derive draw an Revenue from them—

Every healthy man in society is not
rules able by his mere personal to
maintainsupport himself but to provide for the maintenance
of a numerous family— & no Doubt were proper
Employments found him would do so in Con
finement but solitary Confinement without Employment I fear would terminate this to quantise I should
in Insanity Lay down as a fundamental Principle that
every do Executes so much work
so much money for the State per day
dubious to his gaining anything for himself & has for himself—

A Den of Thieves can only be reformed
or kept in order by Solitary Confinement.
& to endure as much as possible the
Expences of the Establishment they should
be forced to build their Penitentiary
Houses themselves. & in some Countries

Identifier: | JB/116/398/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	398b"b" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 398.	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	t w 1800
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	see note 2 to letter 1774, vol. 7	ID Number	38186039
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