DEALING WITH CRIMINALS
BRITISH SCHEME OF REFORM
Received July 22, 10 a.m. LONDON, July 21
In the House of Commons, in the debate on the Prions Vote, ttie Home Secretary, Mr Winston Churchill, outlined the prospective revision of the prison system. He said he proposed to reduce the number of (irst-offende? s sent to prison, and to allow a period of grace for 'payment of fines.
There would be introduced defaulters' drill for offenders between sixteen and twenty-one years of age who hid not been guilty of serious offences.
Imprisonment of persons 1 under iwenty-ono years of age would be reslricted to a month. He had decided that suffragettes should not be compelled to wear prison clothing or be compulsorily searched. Other regulations regarding suffragettes would De relaxed. These latter amendments would aiso
apply to passive resisters. It had been decided that solitary eonfineme t should not exceed une month, except in the case of recidivists.
Prisoners' aic!"'societies would' be
encouraged. The whole system of police supervision ould b°- suspends d, and the tieket-o3>leave system terminated. The sum of £7500 per annum would ba devoted to the rehabilitation of discharged prisoners.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10048, 23 July 1910, Page 5
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