INDETERMINATE SENTENCES
OPERATION OF A NEW ACT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, September 29. A man was sentenced at Folkestone to three years' penal servitude and detention fo r a further period of years as an habitunl criminal on a charge of stealing. This is - the first case under the Prevention of Crimes Act. Mr. Gladstone, in bringing in the Bill, explained that its object was to establish Stato - reformatories, and to institute more effective methods of dealing with criminals who wilfully persisted in crime. A court, on the finding of a jury, would have power to sentence a habitunl eriminnl to n term of preventative detention until Hie man givi nona fide and sufficient assurance that he would take to n n honest life, or until he became physically incapable of reverting to his criminal habits. A mnn, lie said, convicted of four offences wou'd lie an habitual offender. This measure resembles the Act which has bean in force in Now Zealand for some time. i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 2
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166INDETERMINATE SENTENCES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 2
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