GAOL FOR DEBTORS.
Ingush report. AGAINST COMPLETE ABOLITION. , A NEEDED DETERRENT. )lly Telegraph.-I'rcsa Association.—CopyrlclU.l London, September 0. The report of. tlic Select Committoo on Imprisonment for Debt has been laid on tho table of the House of Commons. Tho committee reports against complete abolition of imprisonment, as the threat of imprisonment is considered ,-td bo the. only forcible 1 argument -in the ,'caso of a certain class, of debtors.. ;• . . ■ -,' ; - A reduction of the term .'allowed, by ..the Statute, of Limitations' to three >years instead of •■six- is proposed,, and it is recommended that imprisonment be not permitted in usury and betting cases. - . i.!
[In Britain the number; of debtor prisoners greatly' increased, in tho ,period IEB9-I9oj, but dropped'. slightly in 190 G. The percentage of persons sentenced to pay .fines who go :to prison, ip. default of payment steadily'declined from .18.91 in ''93 to 14.73. in 1250, then increased,' to 19.87 in 1905, and dropped .to 19 iu 1906.] ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 5
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159GAOL FOR DEBTORS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 5
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