Synopsis of Jeremy Bentham's Three Volume Work

Panopticon or Inspection House

Volume 3 - Postscript Part II

 

The Third part is a second postscript to Volume 1. It proposes a Management Plan for a Penitentiary Panopticon.

Title Page:

Panopticon:

Postscript

Part II

CONTAINING

A PLAN OF MANAGEMENT

FOR A

PANOPTICON

PENITENTIARY-HOUSE

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By Jeremy Benthm,

OF Lincoln's-Inn,Esq.

London

PRINTED FORT. PAYNE, AT THE MEWS-GATE

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1791

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Discusses the management of a Panopticon

Acknowledges John Howard's work, not as a writer but as a humanitarian. His publications "afford a rich fund of materials: but a quarry is not a house. No leading principals: no order: no connection."

Summary of the goals of management:

  1. Example, preventing others by the terror of the example from the commission of familiar offenses.

  2. Good behavior
  3. Prevention of Prison-offenses
  4. Prevention of undue hardship
  5. Preservation of health, and cleanliness relating to that end
  6. Security against fire
  7. Safe Custody - prevention of escapes
  8. Provision for future subsistence - on completion of their sentence
  9. Provision for their good behavior : reformation
  10. Religious Instruction
  11. Intellectual Instruction and improvement
  12. Provision for comfort where not incompatible with other ends
  13. Observance of Economy
  14. Maintenance of Subordination

Goes on to propose three rules or Regimes for different types of prisoners.

 

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