DISCIPLINE FOR YOUTH
Sir, — statement of “Verb Sap’’ that Mr Justice Day’s imposition of flogging for assaults brought "lasting, heavenly peace” to Liverpool is one of those perversions of the truth that, once made, are resurrected even 60 years after by the ignorant or 'Sadistic to serve their pernicious purpose. The facts are quoted from an abstract of the Report of the British Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment: “It is frequently said that the activities of the High Rip Gang were brought to an end by the sentences of flogging imposed by Mr Justice Day at the Liverpool Assizes in the late ’eighties and early ’nineties. Actually, in spite of these sentences, the total number of cases of robbery with violence at the Liverpool Assizes was 176 in the first three years of the period (1887-89) whereas in the last three years (1892-94)—after a prolonged trial of flogging’—the total number was 198.’’—Yours, etc., LINCOLN EFFORD, President, Howard League for Penal Reform. February 25, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 4
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