IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT
DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF i.ou:>s (Received February 28, 7 p.m.) LONDON, February 27. The House of Lord? debated the question of imprisonment for the non-payment of rates, maintenance orders, and other debts. It was stated that nearly half of those people imprisoned in Britain were for non-payments. Lord Merrivale declared that Dickens did a great deal to expose the savage wickedness of imprisonment for debt. It was substantially ended for the well-to-do, but not for the poor.
Lord Feversham, for the Government, agreed that something should be done to reduce this type of imprisonment if practicable, without weakening the courts' powers to enforce their orders. Sir John Gilmour (Secretary of State for Home Affairs) proposed a circular to justices, suggesting that they confine these imprisonments to extreme cases, pending legislation on the subject.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21411, 1 March 1935, Page 13
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