ENGLISH PRISONS.
INTERPRETATION OF HARD LABOUR. LONDON, August 30. Hard labour as it is now interpreted in British prisons, in distinction from light labour, is the labour of learning to sleep for the first fortnight of a sentence without a mattress. ; The fact is revealed in a report from Prison Commissioners, who recommend that a large number of jnen and women convicted of various offences should not bo imprisoned, but placed upon probation, conditional upon their attendance at a mental hospital. This step would, the Commissioners contend, largely decrease the prison population, while at tho same time securing the proper treatment for many cases.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 7
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