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Jermey Bentham,
Samuel Bentham and Willey Reveley, Penitentiary Panopticon
1791.
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This act, drafted by the noted prison reformer John Howard and the
famous jurist Sir William Blackstone, substituted a period of
incarceration for many crimes which had previously carried the
penalty of death or transportation. It was motivated by the belief
that solitary confinement, hard servile labour, and a life governed
by petty systematic rules and …
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