STATE REFORMATORIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 58, 3 December 1918, Page 5

STATE REFORMATORIES

AN AMENDING BILL. Th-o Reformatory Institutions Amendment Bill, as its title would indicate, .Ikes .some amendments in the law. relating to those institutions nfohng, however, only the persons detained in them, and the persons responsible foi the conduct of thorn. .'.The Governor■Generol mny by proclamation declae any building or .place, to bo n States inebriates institution or a State reformatory institutio.i. Visiting justices may be appointed to these institutions, and thev are to have the .same powers as are now conferred on 'visiting justices of prisons. Inmates of State institutions may be required to work, and refusal to work may bo punished by visiting justices Voluntary applications for detention in State inebriates institutions may not bo entertained unless the person opplying 'has on four occasions been convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment. Wonum or girls convicted of certain offences may be detained in Stale reformatory institutions without their consent. The'Minister'of Justice may at any time transfer to a State reformatory institution a feinnlo prisoner undergoing sentence of imprisonment in n prison, and. similarly, the Minister of .lustice may transfer to n Stato inebriates institution any prisoner detained in a prison, and detention in that institution is to bo doemed to bo in service of tho sentence. The Minister of Justice may from time to time appoint <i visiting committee for any institution with power to inquire into and report to the Minister on applications for the releas6 of inmates on probation, cr for the discharge of inmates from the institution. Attempts to hold communication with the inmates of an institution without lawful authority or excuse is made on oftVncc punishable by imprisonment for three months or by a fins of ,£SO. To defray the cost of the maintenance of a person in an institution, Ihe Magistrate may make an order against the estate ,of Hie person himself or against tho. estate of the husband, wife, or father of such person.