BORSTAL SYSTEM
EULOGISED BY LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE
EXAMINATION OF PRISONERS,
(tutrrio msi association—copiitwHii)
(Bcurift'i tgUQKAU.) (Received 7th August, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 6th August, The International Prison Congress, eifcting at the- Imperial Institute, was addressed by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart), who emphasised the value of probation. He gave statistics showing 1 that under tnV Borstal system 70 per cent, of the boya and. 80 per oeut. of the girls dealt with never got into trouble again. The conference adopted a resolution that it was necessary that accused persons and also convicted offenders should be physically and mentally examined by specially qualified practitioners, arid the necessary services to enable that to be done should be installed at institutions. Such a system would help to determine the biological and sociological causes of criminality.
Some of the delegates ■ strongly objected to interference with a prisoner before his trial) but Sir E. RugglesBrise assured the congress that there Was no desire to interfere with the ordinary procedure of criminal justice.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 33, 7 August 1925, Page 7
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167BORSTAL SYSTEM Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 33, 7 August 1925, Page 7
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